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INDEX. 



CHAPTER I. 

The Life Giving Elements of Food. Page. 

Classes and Elements of Food. Albumiuous Food. Oleaginous Fo~>d. 
Saccharine and Starchy Food. Vegetable Acid Food. Mincal Salt 
Food. A Mixed Diet is N< cessary 5 — 9 

CHAPTER II. 

The Lymphatic System. 

Treatment of Diseased Lymphatics 10—15 

CHAPTER III. 

The Nervous Diathesis. 

Illustration, plate 1. Causes of a Nervous Diathesis. The Symptoms of 

a Nervous Diathesis. Treatment of a Nervous Diathesis 16—27 

CHAPTER' IV. 

The Dyspeptic Diathesis. [Illustration.] 

Symptoms of a Dyspeptic Diathesis. Illustration, plate. 2. Treatment 

ota Dyspeptic Diathesis 28—35 

CHAPTER V. 

The Rheumatic Diathesis. 

The Gouty Diathesis 36-38 

CHAPTER VI. 
The Corpulent Diathesis. 

Leanness 39—43 

CHAPTER VII. 
The Cancerous Diathesis 44—45 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Th,-: scrofulous Diathesis 46 — 47 

CHAPTER IX. 

Diseases of Women 18—50 



CHAPTER X. 
Miscellaneous Diseases. Page. 

The Heart and it> Diseases. [Illustrations.] Functional Diseases. 
Treatmen\ Diseases of the Kidneys. [Illustration.] Chronic Inflam- 
mation of the Kidneys. Phosphaturia. Chyhuia. Bright's Disease, or 
Albuminuria. [Illustration] Diabetes. Treatment. Diseases of the 
Skin. Diseases of the Rectum and Anus 51—57 

CHAPTER XI. 

The Science of Diet 58—61 

CHAPTER XII. 

Fresh Vegetable Juices 62—63 

Illustration, plate 3 following page 6.4 



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CHAPTER I. 

Two Thousand Years Ancient and Modern Inhalation. 

Inhalation in Olden Times. Inhalation of the Present Day. Its Physi- 
cal, Chemical and Mechanical Effects. The Dry Inhalation Method. 
[Illustrations,] 66—73 

CHAPTER II. 

Catarrhal Diathesis. 

Nasal Catarrh. [Illustration.] Hay Fever. Hay Asthma. Rose (old, 
&c. Nasal Polypi, or Tumors. Catarrh of the Eyes. Catarrh of the 
Ear. [Illustration.] Catarrh of the Throat. [Illustration.] Catarrh 
of the Larynx. Bronchitis, or Bronchial Catarrh Asthma. Catarrh of 
the Stomach. Intestinal Catarrh. Catarrh of the Bladder. Treatment 
of the Catarrhal Diathesis 74—90 

CHAPTER III. 

Consumptive Diathesis. [Illustrations.] 

Causes of the Consumptive Diathesis. [Illustration.] Is Consumption 
Contagious? Symptoms of a Consumptive Diathesis. [Illustration.] 
Treatment of a Consumptive Diathesis. Illustration, plate 4 91—97 

Testimonials 98-118 

Trkatment Through Correspondence 119-120 

Original System op Treatment Through Correspondence. 

Question List 121-128 



PREFACE TO THE 25th EDITION. 




|HIS 25th edition of the SAFEGUARDS OF Life makes 
more than a million copies that have been circu- 
^l^Ii lated by me in the cause of suffering humanity. A 
goodly portion of the benefits that have accrued to 
myself as a result of so large a practice from all parts of 
the civilized world, have been expended again in the cir- 
culation of beneficial literature, and in relieving the suffer- 
ings of the worthy poor. 

Those blessed with an abundance of this world's goods, 
have been required to pay a price commensurate with the 
cost and value of a scientific and conscientious medical 
treatment, but the vast majority, possessed of only lim- 
ited means, have been treated at a merely nominal price. 
The good that I have thus been permitted to do in eman- 
cipating a vast army of sufferers from the thraldom of dis- 
ease, is a perpetual source of inspiration to still greater 
achievements in my chosen profession. 

The Author. 



THE 



SAFEGUARDS 



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-BY- 



A. F. KALKHOFF, A. M. 
TOLEDO, OHIO. 



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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1892, by A. F. Kalkhoff, M. D., in the 
office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 




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THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AND HEALTH. 



j^jJ|)FTER a quarter of a century of scientific research, 
[ experiment, and experience, in the great hospitals 



-rttPS °f Europe and America, and in an immense priv- 
^ x ate practice from all parts of the globe, I am at 
last able to give to a waiting and disease-stricken world 
an absolute cure for chronic and desperate diseases. The 
priceless jewel of perfect health is the richest gift that can 
be bestowed upon the human race. All who are earnestly 
and intelligently seeking to be rid of disease, that dread 
destroyer of happiness and life, should carefully read every 
page of this book. 

In calling attention to my original scientific system of 
treatment for all chronic diseases, I desire to state that the 
same is founded upon physiological principles, or rather 
the laws governing life. When we take into consideration 
that all the diseases with which the human family is afflict- 
ed are caused by disobeying the laws of Nature, either by 
eating and drinking improper food, habits, etc., it stands to 
reason that no treatment will have the desired effect unless 
we make it conform to the laws of Nature — that is, no phy- 
sician can be successful in treating any disease unless he 
tells his patient what to eat, drink, and how to live, and 
then prescribes the proper remedies to act in harmony 
with the food ; and further, unless that patient does con- 



IV. INTRODUCTORY. 



form to these rules he can not regain that which he may 
earnestly hope and pray for — health. 

It is undoubtedly true that we can choose between 
health and disease ; not, perhaps, always individually, for 
the sins of our fathers may be visited upon us, or the social 
customs of our life may gall us, or even our fellow men 
may deny us health or the knowledge w r hich leads to 
health. But as a race man holds his own destiny and can 
choose between good and evil, and as time unrolls the 
scheme of the world it is not too much to hope that the 
choice will be for good. My object in life is to teach the 
public the laws of life, diet, and everything pertaining to 
health, and also to bring to notice a mode of treatment 
that will surely cure all curable diseases. I am aware that 
this is a broad statement, but its absolute truth is attested 
by thousands of unsolicited and unimpeachable testimon- 
ials, a few of which are printed in the last pages of this 
treatise. Respectfully Yours, 



PART I. 

CHAPTER I. 



THE LIFE-GIVING ELEMENTS OF FOOD. 



The first and real cause of nearly all the so-called 
chronic and desperate diseases, is disobedience to Nature s 
laws, and the eating and drinking of improper food. It 
follows, then, that perfect health cannot be restored until 
this primary cause of disease is removed, that is until the 
laws of health are again obeyed, and until the patient eats 
only the proper food suited to his or her particular system. 
For centuries physicians and chemists have experimented 
to find specific medicines to cure certain diseases, but have 
failed, because nothing will permanently cure any physi- 
cal ailment while the cause which produces the disease 
remains. Another reason that no specific remedy can be 
discovered that will cure all cases of any one disease, is 
because the constitution of nearly every individual varies, 
some even having an hereditary tendency to a certain dis- 
ease. In view of this undeniable fact, it ought to be ap- 
parent to all, that each individual case should be studied 
for itself and treated accordingly. Many well meaning 
physicians, unable to make a scientific diagnosis of a dis- 
ease, often cause untold suffering and even death, by giv- 
ing different persons afflicted with similar diseases, the 
same treatment. In order that my readers may more 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



clearly understand the great importance of eating the 
proper foods so as to be cured of certain diseases, I give 
the following : 

CLASSES AND ELEMENTS OF FOOD. 

All food is divided into the following classes : albumin- 
ous, oleaginous, saccharine and starchy, also vegetable 
acids and mineral salts. If an article of food contains a 
large proportion of any one of the foregoing food princi- 
ples it is classified under that head. It often happens that 
some one article of food contains all the above food princi- 
ples in a greater or less proportion, as for instance an egg. 

ALBUMINOUS FOOD. 

The uses of albuminous elements of food in the body 
are, first, to build up and maintain the albuminous tissues ; 
second, the production of force, that is in the shape of 
heat, muscular and nervous power. 

Extra albuminous food enters the blood and constitutes 
there an excess, which we term floating capital, upon 
which the tissues of the body may draw for their repair. 

The force or energy thus resulting is manifest in two 
ways : mechanical labor and heat. The first includes mus- 
cular action in all its various modes of manifestations, 
locomotion, respiration, speech ; all such mechanical labor, 
including that of the heart and bowels, the molecular phe- 
nomena of the nervous tissues in the activity of thought 
and mental energy, and the transformation of secretion, 
are converted into heat, which is given off from the body 
by radiation, respiration, perspiration and the warming of 
the excretions. 

Now, if the force demands of the body, in the shape of 



THE LIFE-GIVING ELEMENTS OF FOOD. 



muscular and nervous energy and heat, are exactly bal- 
anced by the force resulting from the oxidation of the car- 
bon and hydrogen of the food, the weight of the body 
remains the same. If these are insufficient, the body 
wastes away ; if, on the other hand, these are more than 
sufficient, they are stored up in the shape of fat, or adipose 
tissue, which subserves the double purpose of keeping the 
body warm and of storing up carbo-hydrogenous material, 
to meet future demands beyond those met by the immedi- 
ate food supply. Those unpleasant and unhealthy condi- 
tions of excessive fatness or leanness, are exhaustively ex- 
plained in a separate chapter of this book. 

OI.HAGIXOXJS FOOD. 

Oily foods are composed of carbon, hydrogen and a 
small proportion of oxygen ; the chief elements of the oily 
foods are, oleine, stearine, palmatine and margarine. Some 
one or more of these elements make up the chief bulk of 
all animal and vegetable fats, including beef, mutton suet, 
butter, the oil of milk, the yolk of eggs and the fatty acids, 
as butyric acid, etc., and the vegetable oils, including those 
contained in corn, oats and other seeds and fruits. 

The oily foods are digested in the small intestines, 
chiefly by the aid of the pancreatic juice, by which they 
are emulsified, or reduced to a minute state of subdivision. 
Thus reduced they are absorbed by the lacteals in the villi 
and carried through the mesentery into the pancreatic 
duct, and thence into the blood. The result of eating 
these oily foods is to produce physical force, heat and 
mechanical energy and the formation of fatty tissue. Na- 
tives of frigid climates, Icelanders, Esquimaux, consume 
enormous quantities of fatty or oily food. We use more 
in the winter than summer. The second purpose or effect 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



of oily food, the formation of fatty tissue, takes place when 
the amount ingested is more than sufficient to subserve the 
heat and mechanical force demands of the body. 

Fatty tissue is more or less present in all persons, filling 
up the interstices and rounding the outlines of the form, 
while it is excessive in fat persons. Oily foods should 
never be taken alone ; but should always be taken with 
albuminous foods. The diseases produced by the exces- 
sive use of any one or more of the different classes of 
foods, is fully explained further along in these pages. 

SACCHARINE AND STARCHY FOOD. 

In the act of digestion, starch is first converted into 
dextrine, then sugar, by the action of the saliva and pan- 
creatic juice. Sugar is converted into grape sugar. The 
gummy foods reach the blood in the shape of grape sugar. 
These foods are largely for the nourishment and strength- 
ening of the muscles. Eating too much of sugary and 
starchy food produces many of the most painful and diffi- 
cult chronic diseases, which are fully explained elsewhere 
in this treatise. 

VEGETABLE ACID FOOD. 

Acetic acid, lactic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, malic 
acid, are found in fruits — lemons, apples, grapes, oranges, 
etc. An excess of these acids in the system produces 
numerous dangerous complications. 

MINERAL SALT FOOD. 

Water, salt, iron, sulphur, silica, phosphates, calcium, 
potassium, chlorides, etc., these, except water and salt, are 



THE LIFE-GIVING ELEMENTS OF FOOD. 



contained in all the ordinary articles of food in greater or 
less proportions, and in excessive quantities are capable of 
much mischief in certain diseases treated of elsewhere. 

A MIXED DIET IS NECESSARY. 

Experiments and experience prove that a mixed diet is 
necessary. Observation shows an habitual excess of any 
one or more of the great divisions of food over and above 
the wants of the body, will resuit in the production of a 
constitutional derangement, exhibiting itself in various 
ways and known as a diathesis, which means a diseased 
condition. The various diatheses are fully explained 
further along in this volume. 



CHAPTER II. 



THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. 



No part of the human physiology is so little understood 
by the medical profession generally as the lymphatic sys- 
tem, although it is admitted by all that the lymphatics per- 
form a most important work in selecting and distributing 
the nutriment necessary to the different parts of the body. 

Early in my extended medical career, I began looking 
for an explanation of the almost utter failure of physicians 
to successfully cope with difficult and complicated diseases 
of long standing. After carefully covering the entire field 
of medical science, I arrived at the conclusion that a lack 
of knowledge of the real workings of the lymphatic system 
was one of the greatest stumbling blocks and barriers to 
the restoration of a diseased body to perfectly healthy 
conditions. 

During a long course of study and experimentation, I 
ascertained the exact condition of the lymphatics in the 
various stages of health and disease, and the remedies that 
would restore them to their normal condition. During 
this exhaustive investigation, I discovered that the 
lymphatic system is the great selector and distributor of 
the vital fluids for the whole body. When the work of 
the lymphatics is properly performed, these vital fluids are 
first thrown to the blood, which in turn distributes the 
proper portion to the brain and nerves and all other vital 
parts of the body. When the lymphatics cease to perform 
their life-giving functions of selecting, absorbing and 
throwing into the blood the proper proportions of vital 



THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. 11 

fluids, there soon follows diseased conditions called dia- 
theses. 

As was shown in another chapter on the life-giving 
elements of food, the various diatheses or abnormal con- 
ditions of the body may be produced by eating or drinking 
improper food, or other violations of nature's laws. Since 
the functions of the lymphatics are to absorb and supply 
to the blood the life-giving elements necessary to perfect 
health, it follows, then, that any interference with their 
absorptive powers, by improper quantities and qualities of 
food, or by irritating habits of life, must surely result in 
one or more diatheses, or diseased conditions. From this 
reasoning it is evident that perfect health is not possible 
with an unnatural action of the lymphatics, and that these 
great absorbents cannot act naturally w 7 ith improper food 
and unnatural practices. It follows then, that practicing 
the science of DIET, which teaches what to, and what not 
to eat and drink, together with obedience to the laws of 
life, constitute the first great requisite to good health. 
This vital question of diet is necessarily treated on in a 
later chapter of this work. 

TREATMENT OK DISEASED LYMPHATICS. 

In order that my readers may more thoroughly appre- 
ciate what I shall say on my treatment for the diseased or 
unnatural action of the lymphatic system, it should first be 
understood that the lymphatics are so numerous as to be 
found in every texture and organ of the body. The lym- 
phatics derive their name from the watery appearance of 
the fluid contained in their interior, {lympha— water .} The 
lymphatic system includes not only the lymphatic vessels 
and glands through which they pass, but also the lacteal 
vessels of the small intestines, so called because they are 
filled with a milky, instead of a water colored fluid. 



12 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

As I have before shown, the prolonged violation of 
nature's laws will produce a chronic, or continued un- 
natural action of the lymphatics. This abnormal or dis- 
eased action of the great absorbents of the body, often 
exists temporarily in the ordinary acute and sudden dis- 
eases which I am compelled to refuse to treat, on account 
of the pressing demands on my time, of the difficult, 
chronic and stubborn constitutional diseases that have 
baffled the skill of the regular physicians. 

While the action of the lymphatics may be temporarily 
interfered with, by a brief violation of some of the laws of 
life, it is the continued and persistent abuse of nature's 
regulations that finally produce a permanently diseased 
action, that without the proper treatment, grows worse 
with age. 

Many of the most intelligent persons, of seemingly good 
habits, continue to violate some law of nature, or to eat or 
drink injurious food for years, without knowing what 's the 
matter. Many of these unfortunate persons have actually 
given up hope of ever being cured, because they have had 
a bitter experience of improper treatment. The fact is 
that nine out of ten of these chronic sufferers could be 
cured, if they knew what they should eat and drink, and 
how to live, and had remedies that would restore their 
dseased lymphatic system to a healthy and natural action. 

Thousands of chronic sufferers in all parts of the country 
have treated with me, through the recommendation of 
friends, and have been restored to perfect health after 
having failed to get relief at the hands of numerous other 
physicians, who doubtless did not properly understand 
their cases. 

In the vast majority of these difficult chronic cases that 
have come to my notice, there was an unnatural action of 



THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. 13 

the lymphatics, aggravated largely, in many cases, by the 
vast quantities of medical poison that had been poured 
into the system. 

In order to properly understand how strong, poisonous 
medicines aid the lymphatic system in becoming diseased, 
it must be understood, first, that the lymphatics are ex- 
ceedingly delicate vessels, the coatings of which are so 
transparent, that the fluid they contain is readily seen 
through them. As these delicate lymphatics are the 
great absorbents of the body, through which everything 
must pass to get into the blood, it follows that when in- 
jurious medicines or other highly poisonous substances 
are taken into the stomach, they will pass through and 
poison the lymphatic system during the process of assimi- 
lation. 

It should be borne in mind in this connection, that THE 
GREAT MISSION OF THE LYMPHATICS IS NOT ONLY TO 
ABSORB, OR ASSIMILATE, BUT TO SELECT FROM THE VAST 
VARIETY OF FLUIDS, THAT WHICH IS GOOD FOR THE 
BLOOD, AND TO REJECT, OR THROW OFF IN THE EX- 
CRETIONS, THAT WHICH IS IMPURE AND UNNATURAL TO 
THE SYSTEM. Now, when poisonous medicines, or other 
injurious articles taken into the stomach first reach the 
delicate and discriminating lymphatics, they naturally re- 
pel and throw them off with the waste of the body. But, 
if these or any other poisonous ingredients continue to be 
taken into the body, the lymphatics soon become accus- 
tomed to the poisons, and instead of throwing them off, 
they absorb and inject them into the blood. After this 
beneficent power of the lymphatics, to throw off dangerous 
fluids, is once, broken down or destroyed, then they be- 
come instead of a safe-guard, a sewer through which both 
good and bad material are thrown into the system. 



14 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

Having thrown aside the veil of obscurity that has 
hitherto concealed the real workings of the lymphatics, I 
still had before me the herculean task of discovering the 
remedies that would drive out the poisons already in the 
system, and restore the diseased lymphatics to healthy 
action. I realized from the outset, that the discovery of 
remedies that would act directly on the lymphatic system 
and the blood, would necessitate long and weary hours of 
research and experiment. I was, however, spurred on to 
undertake this great task, by the knowledge that success 
would give me the mastery over many difficult diseases 
hitherto considered incurable. 

I did not begin my search in the drugstores, but went 
directly into the great laboratory of nature — the fields, 
forests and flower gardens. Guided by botanic knowledge, 
and an intimate acquaintance with the science of chemistry, 
I gathered berries, plants, blossoms and leaves, and se- 
cured roots, barks and herbs which I prepared in my own 
laboratory. From the rich, natural juices extracted from 
these vegetable products, I finally, after years of patient 
toil, succeeded in producing a system of remedies that act 
on the blood and lymphatic system in the same manner 
that food builds up a healthy body. 

After spending a quarter of a century in European and 
American hospital work, and in my extended private prac- 
tice, I found myself the possessor of an ample fortune. 
My friends and family then urged upon me the advisability 
of retiring, but the thought of the vast army of chronic 
sufferers, hoping and praying for relief, caused me to de- 
cide in favor of continuing my work for diseased humanity. 
I, therefore, resolved to give the secret of my success in 
curing disease DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE, which accounts 
for the publication of this medical work. So great has 



THR LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. 15 

been the demand for this book, in its numerous editions, 
that already more than a million have found their way 
into the homes of the people. The knowledge that I am 
da'ly letting the sunshine of health and happiness into 
hundreds of afflicted lives, will be a sufficient stimulus and 
satisfaction to keep me engaged in the work of emanci- 
pating a portion of the human family from the thraldom 
of disease. 

In the following pages I shall set forth the different 
DIATHESES, together with other symptoms, and my 
methods of treatment, which will doubtless prove alike 
interesting and profitable to all, and more especially to 
the afflicted. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 



In all the marvels of creation there is nothing so won- 
derful in its complexity and utility, as the nervous system 
of the human body. The subtile nerve force conveys to 
the brain with lightning rapidity the impressions and 
actions of the outer world. By it we think and move and 
are conscious that we exist. By this immaterial power we 
are linked with the outer world, and by it our material 
body is swayed. Over this seemingly supernatural system 
of human thought and intelligence is conveyed every emo- 
tion, passion, perception and recollection. By the higher 
development of this invisible power, man is made the 
crowning work of creation, and is enabled to measure the 
stars and grapple with the problems of the infinite. 

In view of the vast utility and marvelous energy required 
of the nervous system, is it any wonder that this delicate 
and wonderfully complex construction should become 
sometimes exhausted and subject to more frequent disor- 
ders than any other part of the human body? Even under 
the most favored conditions of human existence the ner- 
vous system is bound to be sometimes severely strained. 
If those whose lives are one continuous round of pleasure 
are subject to nerve exhaustion, how much more then will 
this be the case with the toiling and struggling multitude 
whose lot in life has been to hew down the forests, turn 
the wheels of industry and bear the heavy burdens of 
legitimate offspring ? 

At no time in the history of the world has the failure of 



PLATE I. 







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LYMPHATIC SYSTEM OF THE HEAD AND NECK. 



THE NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 17 

nerve power been as frequent or alarming as during the 
last decade. The appalling frequency of sudden death 
from so-called heart failure, and the large and ever increas- 
ing number of cases of insanity and paralysis reported 
through the newspapers, are the direct result of exhausted 
nerve force. 

Before enumerating and defining the contributing causes 
of this lamentable increase of nervous diseases, it will be 
necessary to explain briefly the processes by which nerve 
force is stored and distributed through the nervous system. 
First of all, it should be understood that the materials that 
go to make up the nerve force is extracted from the food 
we eat by the processes of assimilation through the lym- 
phatic system. As was explained in a previous chapter, 
the lymphatics supply the blood w r ith nerve nourishment 
and all other vital fluids necessary to the body. When 
the nerve nourishment is selected and prepared in the deli- 
cate lymphatics, they inject it into the blood, which, in 
turn, distributes this nerve supply to the storage batteries 
located in the brain and spinal ganglia. The mission of 
these storage batteries is to supply nourishment to the 
nervous system as fast as it is required, and also to store 
up a surplus for use in an emergency of unusual nervous 
strain when the lymphatics cannot supply it as fast as 
needed. 

My readers will now readily understand that if the 
amount of nerve force used continues to be more than is 
manufactured, then the surplus stored in the batteries will 
soon be exhausted and the nerves will necessarily have to 
depend upon the daily supply through the lymphatic sys- 
tem. If the amount of nervous energy consumed by the 
body should long continue to be more than is manufac- 
tured, the result must inevitably be an impoverished, de- 



18 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

ranged, diseased and eventually a completely broken down 
nervous system. 

CAUSES OF A NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 

Having shown briefly the process of storage and distri- 
bution of nerve force, and the awful results of using more 
nerve energy than is manufactured, I am now prepared to 
consider some of the causes for the alarming increase of 
nervous diseases. Generally speaking it is certain that the 
country's rapid increase in population and the consequent 
keen competition in every line of life, constitutes at least 
one of the primary causes of increased nerve exhaustion. 
This keen competition and struggle for existence and 
wealth creates a spirit of rivalry that causes men and wo- 
men to engage in a mad race for supremacy that must 
inevitably result, sooner or later, in a broken down ner- 
vous system. 

History and observation have taught me that during 
every period of the world's existence, the people have 
drifted into some extreme. We have had the age of chiv- 
alry, of war, of literature, and numerous other periods, and 
now, in this latter half of the nineteenth century, we find 
ourselves living in the age of money. But few will ever 
admit that they have broken themselves down in the effort 
to get money. The fact is, however, that all are more or 
less affected by their surroundings, and when they see 
their neighbors and friends making haste to win wealth, 
they will naturally, and sometimes almost unconsciously, 
quicken their pace to keep up with others in the race of 
life. I therefore naturally arrive at the conclusion that 
the desire to make money is contageous, and that every- 
one living in this age of money-getting is subject to a 



THE NERVOUS DIATHESIS 19 

much greater nervous strain than were our slow and sure- 
going forefathers. 

Another cause contributing to the increasing ailments 
of the nervous system, is the increase of intelligence and 
thought, especially among the farming communities and 
the inhabitants of smaller towns. This statement, without 
further elucidation, would doubtless seem remarkable to 
many of my readers ; but when I remind them that it takes 
nerve force for brain work, and that the spreading of intel- 
ligence and thought cannot be accomplished without in- 
creased brain labor, the truth of my proposition will be 
readily comprehended. The fact that farming and small 
town communities are now making rapid strides in the 
mental world is clear to any observant person who will 
compare their means of information and education now, 
with those of thirty years ago. But while this universal 
increase of thought and knowledge in the more remote 
country places is cause for general rejoicing, yet the rapid 
increase of nervous diseases among the farmers and vil- 
lagers of the land, is greatly to be deplored. 

The time was, when cases of nervous prostration, sudden 
death from so called heart failure, partial or complete 
paralysis, insanity, and the thousand and one other mala- 
dies that follow in the wake of a diseased nervous system, 
were few and far between in the quiet country and small 
town places. Now, some one or more of the numerous 
nervous diseases or complications can be found in almost 
every family of the country as well as among the city pop- 
ulation. If further evidence were wanting of the rapid in- 
crease of nervous diseases in the rural districts, I should 
cite my readers to the ever increasing number of insane 
patients being sent to the asylums by our country cousins. 
I note here the increase of insanity more particularly, be- 



20 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

cause this ultimate dethroning of the reason, and perpetual 
anguish of mind, is the logical result of long neglected and 
aggravated disease of the nervous system. 

There are, however, a large number of cases of a dis- 
eased brain or exhausted nervous system, which is neither 
the result of our new and fast civilization, nor abuses on 
the part of the person suffering from the malady. I refer 
to nervous and brain troubles which are frequently inher- 
ited from father or mother. During the years of my prac- 
tice I have met many such cases where brain troubles, or 
an exhaustion of the nerve force, had evidently been trans- 
mitted from the parents. These inherited cases of nervous 
disorder should have prompt and scientific treatment of 
the lymphatic system to increase the vital force of the 
nerves, and this treatment should be seconded by a strictly 
scientific diet. It also frequently happens that an ex- 
hausted condition of the nerves, resulting from whatever 
cause, seriously interferes with the processes of digestion 
and aggravates a dyspeptic diathesis. I have been called 
upon to treat many cases of different chronic disorders 
resulting from a complication of a nervous, dyspeptic, and 
sometimes other diatheses. In fact many of the more 
desperate diseases of long standing are complications of 
diseases. This subject will be separately treated on in the 
proper place. 

I have found but one rational and effective way of 
checking this frightful increase of nervous maladies, re- 
sulting from either present conditions and abuses, or in- 
herited causes, and that is — first, to fill up the storage bat- 
teries of the nerves by treating the lymphatic system. 
The next step is to eat and drink more nerve nourishing 
food, so that the nerve force will continue to be generated 
through the lymphatic system faster than it is used by the 



THE NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 21 

body. The result of this will, of course, be to always keep 
a surplus in the storage batteries, which will cause the 
machinery of the nerves to run smooth and steady, the 
same as a well lubricated engine with a full head of steam. 
The subject of the real remedy is merely referred to here, 
for the purpose of clinching the other truths enunciated. 
My effective methods of treating the lymphatics, also the 
.science of diet, as applied to the restoration of the nerve 
power, will be fully treated by me further along in this 
chapter. 

I have heretofore considered only those more natural, 
general and primary causes for the increase of nervous 
diseases, which are not the result of any gross violation of 
nature's laws, or wilful abuse of the powers of the body. 
Unfortunately for the human race, a large proportion of 
the more aggravated nervous disorders, are the direct re- 
sult of some flagrant violation of nature's wholesome laws. 
These violations are in some cases, the result of ignorance, 
and in others of corrupted morals and a diseased imagi- 
nation. Any sudden shock, resulting from falling, sudden 
fright, extreme pain, worry, over-work, family troubles, 
pains of maternity, bad air, improper food, over-study, 
thinking too much on one subject, and an almost endless 
variety of other common causes, may, any or all of them, 
contribute to the derangement, or breaking down of the 
nervous system, which will never restore itself without 
proper treatment. Besides the foregoing, still more 
potent causes for an exhausted nerve force, are the keep- 
ing of late hours, loss of sleep, general dissipation, mar- 
riage excesses, continued discharges, and other unnatural 
private abuses, which are treated on fully in my book en- 
titled "A Gift of Gold" which will be sent free to any 
address on receipt of stamps for postage. 



22 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

The last, but not least, of the causes which aggravate 
and often produce chronic nerve derangement, is the in- 
discriminate use of various advertised patent nerve medi- 
cines and appliances, all claimed to be cures for nervous 
diseases. It is a fact quite generally known, that an ex- 
hausted condition of the nervous system produces an un- 
natural craving for various kinds of stimulants. The 
compounders and venders of alleged nervines, take advan- 
tage of this desire for stimulants, and feed their nervous 
patrons on bromides, chloral, cocaine, morphine, and 
other deadly drugs, which soothe and deaden the nerves 
for a time, but finally produce a semi-paralyzed condition. 
The idea of a single preparation that will cure all forms of 
nervous diseases, is too absurd for serious consideration. 
The truth is, the vast number of patent medicines adver- 
tised for nervous diseases are not intended to cure any- 
thing. Their real purpose is to stimulate the patient, who 
frequently becomes a confirmed victim of the liquor, 
morphine, or opium habit, as a result of the appetite for 
stimulants, aggravated by patent nerve preparations. The 
stimulating and quieting effect of these prepared nerve 
medicines often make the sufferer feel better for a while ; 
as soon, however, as the system becomes accustomed to 
them, and they largely lose their effect, even in increased 
doses, then the patient awakens to the realization that 
the nervous system is more exhausted than ever. I take 
this opportunity to warn my readers of the danger of 
subjecting the delicate nerve organism to patent prepar- 
ations they know nothing about, because it will afterwards 
take the most skilled treatment to overcome the bad 
effects of these unnatural nerve stimulants. 

THE SYMPTOMS OK A NERVOUS DIATHESIS* 

One of the greatest safeguards to human life, is nature's 



THE NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 23 

timely warning when even any of the delicate and intri- 
cate machinery of the body is out of repair. These 
warnings or signs when disease has laid hold of the human 
system, are called symptoms. These symptoms or pre- 
monitary signs of the encroachment of disease, constitute 
the key by which I am enabled to unlock the otherwise 
secret hiding places of many classes of diseases. 

The entire nervous system is so intricate and delicate 
in its construction and operation, that when any portion 
of it becomes diseased, nature immediately sounds a note 
of warning, by causing some unnatural feeling or condition 
to exist in some organ or part of the body closely con- 
nected with the nervous system. During the quarter of a 
century that I have devoted exclusively to the treatment 
of nervous and other difficult chronic disease patients ■ 
from all portions of America and the European countries, 
I have carefully noted the symptoms or signs of a nervous 
diathesis. I have invariably found that when a person 
would honestly and fully fill out my question blank, ex- 
plaining their habits and feelings or symptoms, that I 
could diagnose and cure their disease by correspondence 
as well as if they had called upon me in person. I men- 
tion this for the purpose of showing that nature's symp- 
toms or signs of nervous maladies, and all other systemic 
diseases, are always correct, and that the mistakes in 
treating a disease are generally caused by a lack of 
knowledge of the science of symptoms and diagnosis of 
disease. 

To aid my readers in making up their minds as to 
whether they have a deranged or diseased nervous system, 
I will now proceed to give briefly some of the principal 
symptoms as observed by myself in the treatment of a 
vast variety of nervous cases from every country of the 



24 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

civilized world. It should be borne in mind, however, that 
there are other symptoms of nervous diseases not here 
named, and that a person suffering from nerve exhaustion 
does not usually experience very many of these symptoms 
or feelings in the early stages of the disease. Tenderness 
of portions of the scalp or forehead is an evidence of ner- 
vous irritation. The tender feelings will sometimes come 
and go, and at other times are almost constant. Then 
there is temporary or permanent tenderness of the spine, 
excessive ticklishness, a desire for stimulants and narcotics 
to brace up or deaden the excessive sensibilities of the 
nerve organism ; mental depression with general timidity ; 
excessive timidity in cases of sexual exhaustion ; morbid 
fears of leaving home, going out of the house or going 
anywhere alone ; a vague fear that something is going to 
happen, as of some terrible calamity or death ; this fear of 
death frequently becomes worse upon going to bed and 
upon suddenly awaking in the night with a feeling of dizzi- 
ness, difficulty of breathing, and a sinking or death-like 
sensation ; sick-headache and various forms of head pains, 
pain, heaviness and fullness in the back of the head ; irrita- 
bility or twitching of the eyes and eyelids ; eyes painful 
and tender to the touch, especially while reading, writing 
or sewing ; peculiar smells and tastes without any appar- 
ent cause ; partial failure of memory ; seminal emissions of 
married men; numbness in different parts of the body; 
crawling or creeping, as of insects creeping under the skin ; 
a feeling of a pin, or many pins being touched to the skin ; 
tendency for the legs and arms to go to sleep when some- 
what cramped or under slight pressure ; chills, or flashes 
of heat in any or all parts of the body ; cold knees or feet ; 
intense itching, either of some particular part, or all over 
the body at certain times ; spasms, or sudden contraction 



THE NERVOUS DIATHF.SIS. 25 

of some of the muscles ; an excited and faint feeling in the 
stomach following a feeling of responsibility, fear, ormuch 
earnest talking ; excessive moisture of the eyes during 
pleasure or pain ; dryness of the skin, hair or beard, caus- 
ing the hair to fall out, or to become gray in patches ; ex- 
cessive or morbid perspiration of the hands and feet, and 
in the armpits, or on other parts of the body ; obstinate 
constipation resulting from lack of secretion and dryness 
of the intestines ; tenderness of the teeth and gums ; flying 
or jumping neuralgic pains ; flushing and restlessness ; 
tremulous and changeable pulse and palpitation of the 
heart ; sudden feeling of weakness or inability to perform 
a mental or physical task ; a feeling of profound exhaus- 
tion not accompanied by positive pain ; special idiosyn- 
crasies and fancies regarding food and external irritants ; 
a feeling as if the heart was about to stop beating ; sudden 
loss of voice and muscular power ; deafness ; a feeling that 
there is something alive in the stomach ; peculiar erup- 
tions of an itchy nature over the body ; roaring noises in 
the head ; frequent desire to urinate, the urine being 
scanty and dark colored at times and profuse and pale at 
other times ; a feeling as of a band tied around the top of 
the head ; sleeplessness ; unpleasant dreams ; tired and 
languid feelings upon arising in the morning; difficulty of 
breathing and wasting of flesh. 

The foregoing are some of the principal symptoms or 
signs of nerve derangement and exhaustion resulting from 
a nervous diathesis, which if neglected, will surely termi- 
nate in the development of some of the most distressing 
and DANGEROUS ORGANIC and FUNCTIONAL NERVOUS 
DISEASES, which I will now proceed to mention. 

BRAIN DISEASES, such as Softening of the Brain; 
Cerebral Conjestion, caused by an abnormal or increased 



26 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

flow of blood to the brain ; Cerebral An&mia, resulting- 
from a decreased flow of blood to the brain ; Apoplexy, 
caused by cerebral hemorrhage, and finally Insanity. 

SPINAL CORD DISEASES, such as Spinal Irritation, 
Writers Cramps, Spinal Ancemi a, and Locomotor Ataxia. 

OTHER DESPERATE NEVOUS DISEASES, such as 
Hysteria, Sick-Headache, Neuralgia, Catalepsy, local or 
general Paralysis, Shaking Palsy, Chorea or St. Vitus' 
Dance, and Epileptic Fits ; also Nervous Debility, arising- 
from over-study or excesses, and other private nervous 
diseases which it would be improper here to speak of, but 
which are fully treated upon in my private treatise en- 
titled, "A Gift of Gold." 

TREATMENT OK A NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 

The fatal mistake that is generally made, is in trying to 
treat the EFFECT instead of the CAUSE of nervous diseases. 
The fact that the victims of nervous disorders always crave 
tonics or stimulants, because of their exhausted nervous 
condition, led many to cater to the unnatural desire in- 
stead of seeking remedies that would increase the genera- 
tion of nerve force in the body. It is evident that it was the 
lack or exhaustion of the nerve force that produced the 
nervous disease, and that the desire for stimulants was 
simply one of the symptoms or signs af the disease. It 
follows, therefore, that when the body is made to generate 
the required nerve force, the desire for stimulants will dis- 
appear, and the nervous disease is cured. 

My success in curing so many forms and varieties of 
nervous affections, is due to the fact that all my study, in- 
vestigation and experimentation w T ere conducted with a 
determination to discover nature's own remedies and 



THE NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 27 

methods to increase her generation of nerve power, in- 
stead of tryingto improve on nature by drugging the 
system. When searching for nature's remedies, I did not 
go to the druggist's for the dried up and badly prepared 
roots and barks, that had long since lost their active med- 
ical properties, if they ever had any. Instead, I betook 
myself to nature's storehouse ; where, guided by botanic 
and chemical knowledge, I finally succeeded in securing 
various products from the vegetable kingdom designed by 
nature to act as medical foods for the regulating and re- 
building of an exhausted nervous system. If it is desired 
to restore to smooth and steady action the deranged and 
exhausted nerves of the body, it can only be done by re- 
plenishing the exhausted storage batteries with nerve 
force extracted from certain natural nourishment assimi- 
lated and injected into the blood through a re-vitalized 
lymphatic system. 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 




THE STOMACH AND LIVER. 



The health and life of the entire bady is directly de- 
pendent upon the proper performance of the functions of 
the stomach. The work of the stomach, briefly summar- 
ized, is to digest, or prepare the food in such a manner 
that all the life-giving elements necessary to the building 
up of the body may be properly assimilated through the 
lymphatic system into the blood, which, in turn, distributes 
the vital nourishment to every part of the human system. 

No other organ of the human body is subject to such 
gross abuse as the stomach. Into it is dumped everything 
that the palate craves and the eye covets, without regard 
to the digestibility or compatibility with other ingredients 
of the heterogeneous mass consumed. This gross abuse of 
the organ of digestion, is largely the result of a lack of 
knowledge as to the probable result of indiscriminately 



THE DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 29 

devouring everything that may be offered, or that which 
pleases the fancy. It frequently happens, especially in 
cases of stomach derangement or disease, that the very 
thing we most crave, is the very worst thing we could eat. 

One of the strangest things about the dyspeptic dia- 
thesis to the average individual, is the fact that those who 
originally had the best and strongest stomachs, are 
frequently the very worst victims of dyspepsia in after 
years. This is not at all strange, w r hen the philosophy of 
the proposition is considered. A strong man is the 
most likely to strain himself lifting ; the long winded indi- 
vidual is more apt to hurt himself running ; and so on 
through a long list of physical and mental efforts. So also 
is the person endowed by nature with a strong digestive 
apparatus, much more likely to abuse his digestive powers 
than the person who realizes the necessity of care in the 
selection and mastication of food. Many of those who 
glory in the strength of their stomach, and boastingly re- 
mark that they can almost digest nails, or some like indi- 
gestible material, are the most likely to sooner or later, 
impair or destroy their digestion, by continuing to devour 
anything that comes before them. 

Another fruitful source of a dyspeptic diathesis, is the 
habit of eating too rapidly and washing the food down 
with drink, instead of chewing it thoroughly so as to 
moisten every particle of the food with the saliva of the 
mouth. This tendency of eating too rapidly results not 
only in swallowing large pieces of victuals, which will 
sooner or later injure digestion, but also leads one to con- 
sume more than the system requires, which will not be 
the case when eating sufficiently slow to feel the good of 
the food. The habit of thinking one's self too busy in 
the pursuits of life to take enough time to properly eat the 



30 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

things necessary to life and health, is foolish in the ex- 
treme. This ridiculous idea of not having time to 
properly eat and live, is nearly on a par with the fool- 
hardy fellow who was so busy running, that he had not 
time to stop and catch his breath, so of course he died. 

The custom of eating late suppers, which prevails very 
largely among some people who consider themselves good 
livers, must sooner or later result in a deranged and dis- 
eased stomach. Of course, I expect those who have in- 
dulged in this questionable practice, and thus far escaped 
serious injury, will laugh, and declare the time to eat is 
when you are hungry. I do not question the fact that 
there is occasionally a person who has so much vitality 
and such a strong constitution that he or she can disregard 
many of nature's laws with apparent impunity- ' I have 
known men who drank bad whiskey every day of their 
lives who live to a good, old age ; but it does not necessarily 
follow from this that the man would not have enjoyed 
better health and lived still longer had he not drank the 
whiskey. Then, again, observation teaches me that, where 
one man could live to be old, and habitually drink alco- 
holic liquors, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thous- 
and, with the same habit, would go down to early graves. 
So it is with the abuse of the stomach in the matter of 
food. In regard to eating just before retiring for the 
night, I will add that the injury results largely from the 
fact that during sleep the circulation of the blood is much 
slower than in waking hours. As it is the rapid flow of 
blood through the network of vessels underlying the 
lymphatics of the stomach that promotes the process of 
digestion, it naturally follows that digestion is labored and 
difficult during sleep when the blood flows slowly. 

But it is not my purpose in this brief treatise to enumer- 



THE DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 31 

ate all, or any considerable number of causes which pro- 
duce a dyspeptic diathesis. To do so would fill a book of 
itself, since the causes vary to some extent in each indi- 
vidual case. I have merely called attention to a few of 
the pratices by which digestion is impaired, in order to 
illustrate the terrible abuse of the stomach by the average 
individual. When it is considered that the stomach of so 
many thoughtless persons is made, practically, a sink- 
hole, or swill barrel into which every kind of victuals is 
indiscriminately dumped, the vast number of cases of 
stomach disease is no cause for wonder. 

SYMPTOMS OF A DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 

In healthy persons a good digestion is productive of a 
sense of comfort. It is quite the reverse in dyspeptics ; 
they are often uneasy or miserable after eating, while the 
digestive process is going on, they experience uneasiness 
in the stomach or intestines, a feeling of fullness or a 
general sense of discomfort. These symptoms may afford 
the only evidence of disorder in some cases. 

In other cases there may be water-brash and a belch- 
ing up of an insipid brackish or saltish liquid. The liquid 
belched up, is sometimes intensely sour from the presence 
of an excess of acids, generally due to fermentative or 
putrifactive changes in the food, may be greasy or nauseous, 
frequently appears to scald the throat ; heartburn is 
present in some cases ; a painful sense of fullness after 
eating without abdominal distension, is common ; but more 
or less bloating from the presence of air or gas is a promi- 
ent symptom, giving rise to rumbling and splashing 
sounds in the bowels ; this may be confined to the stomach 
or intestines, frequently a throbbing sensation in the 



32 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

region of the stomach. The accumulation of gas in the 
stomach, if considerable, occasions painful distension, 
embarrasses respiration, interferes with the action of the 
heart and disturbs the normal movements, of the intestines. 
The appetite may be impaired; there is frequently a 
dislike for all kinds of food, vomiting occurs in some 
cases. Frequently a feeling of weight, uneasiness, sinking, 
craving emptiness or pain of different degrees of intensity, 
appearing either when the stomach is empty or after 
taking food. 

The tongue is usually furred or coated, sometimes broad, 
pale and flabby, and in some cases red and glazed. The 
breath is usually heavy and offensive and sometimes fetid. 

Constipation is a pretty general symptom, frequently 
alternating with diarrhoea. There is more or less pain in 
some cases ; may be of a gnawing, burning or sharp, shoot- 
ing character. 

Patients suffer more or less from mental depression, 
frequently a feeling of utter helplessness. They are 
gloomy, devoid of buoyancy, disposed to look always on 
the dark side, and may be apprehensive of the existence 
of some grave disease, as consumption, Bright's disease, 
etc. Thoughts become concentrated upon themselves, 
they are constantly watching their sensations, get into the 
habit of counting the pulse, feeling the heart beat, examin- 
ing the urine, etc. This condition finally results in 
melancholia, hypochondriasis, hysteria, and in some 
instances convulsions. 

There are frequently neuralgic pains in muscles of the 
chest and abdomen, pain between or under the shoulder 
blades, striking through to the front. Usually more or 
less weakness, weariness, or painful aching in the limbs. 

Headache varying in severity is common, more or less 



PLATE II. 







LYMPHATIC SYSTEM OF THE TRUNK OF THE BODY. 



THE DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 33 

dizziness, impairment of vision, diminished intellectual 
activity, loss of memory and depression of spirits. 

The urine is sometimes scanty, high-colored, strongly 
acid with a frequent desire to urinate ; at other times 
excessive and very pale. Frequently a heavy deposit on 
standing, or may be a brick-dust appearance. In extreme 
cases, albumen or sugar may appear in the urine. 

The skin may be earthen or sallow in color, and dry and 
harsh. In some cases manifestations of fibrile heat, flashes 
of heat and cold. Suppression of perspiration in other 
cases by general coldness and chilliness, especially of the 
extremities or by perspiration on slight exertion. There 
may be various eruptions of the skin, as excema, pimples, 
hives, etc. 

The circulation is frequently affected as evidenced by 
frequent palpitation of the heart, especially upon the least 
exertion or excitement, intermittency of the pulse, some- 
times a feeling as though one was dying, and sooner or 
later, symptoms of heart failure. The respiration is affected, 
more or less shortness of breath, a sense of load at the 
chest, cough, usually dry, and in some cases asthmatic 
paroxysms. 

There are alterations in the general nutrition as evi- 
denced by lack of blood and wasting of all the tissues, but 
especially seen in certain parts, as loss of the hair, decay of 
the teeth, incurvation of the nails which are thin and friable. 
There is also excessive liability to inflammation of the 
mucous membranes, especially of the eye, nose and throat. 

TREATMENT OF A DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 

Before touching briefly upon the general principles 
involved in my treatment of a dyspeptic diathesis, I desire 



34 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

to speak of what may properly be termed the mistreat- 
ment of stomach diseases, by the use of preparations to 
temporarily aid in the process of digestion. I refer more 
particularly to the use of the various pepsins and other 
proprietary preparations now on the market, and held out 
as cures for the very worst forms of stomach derangement 
and disease. There is no doubting the fact, that these 
preparations do for a time materially aid a weak digestion 
by furnishing an artificial and unnatural means of dissolv- 
ing food, which would otherwise lie dormant in the stom- 
ach until fermentation and partial putrefaction had taken 
place. But while the use of these artificial means of diges- 
tion give temporary relief, they are dangerous expedients 
for the reason that they furnish an unnatural means of 
dissolving foods. This leaves the stomach weaker for want 
of some proper work to perform, neutralizes the natural 
juices, and prevents the proper absorption of the real 
nutriment of the food by the lymphatic system. It is 
thus apparent that the continued use of an artificial means 
of digestion will eventually result in a still weaker stomach, 
and other diseased complications, resulting from lack of 
proper nutriment, owing to the partial prevention of the 
process of assimilation. The regular use of pepsins also 
results in the stomach becoming accustomed to their 
presence, so that they lose their effect, unless taken in ever 
increasing doses, which of course increases the injury to 
the system.. 

If unfortunate sufferers from stomach disease expect to 
be eventually cured, they must devote their attention to 
some treatment which will remedy the first cause of the 
disease, instead of treating the result of the trouble as is 
done by the use of artificial aids to digestion. If upon a 
scientific diagnosis of a person's case it is found that certain 



THE DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 35 

improper habits of life have caused or augmented the 
dyspeptic trouble, then the very first thing to do, is to 
STOP that particular injurious habit of violating nature's 
laws. The next step is to make out a DIET CHART of 
what the patient must and must not eat, and the prescrib- 
ing of remedies that will act in harmony with the food and 
restore the lymphatic absorbents of the stomach and 
bowels to a healthy action. I have for years contended 
that the permanent restoration of a diseased stomach 
could not be accomplished, unless correcting the patient's 
manner of living, and an application of the science of DIET 
to the sufferer's daily life. I am now being gratified and 
rewarded by the endorsement of this method by the most 
eminent physicians of the old and new world. If I shall 
be permitted to see a correct knowledge of the SCIENCE 
OF DIET disseminated among and practiced by the medical 
profession, then my triumph will be well-nigh complete. 
On this subject of DIET and its relations, to the curing of 
chronic diseases, I shall treat in a separate chapter. In 
my treatment of a dyspeptic diathesis, I never lose sight 
of the fact, that each individual case has its peculiar 
phases and conditions w T hich must be carefully con- 
sidered in prescribing food and remedies that will restore 
the diseased stomach to a natural and healthy action. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS. 



Rheumatism, in both the acute and chronic forms, may 
be either hereditary or acquired. The real cause of a 
rheumatic diathesis is the presence in the blood of too 
large a per centage of uric and other acids. In the rheu- 
matic cases of children, and others, where the disease has 
evidently been inherited, this unnatural chronic condi- 
tion of the blood is transmitted from one or both of the 
parents, and has the same effect upon the patient as when 
the disease is acquired. The primary cause of too much 
acid in the blood, is the eating of too large a proportion of 
acid producing food. The continued presence in the sys- 
tem of an excessive amount of acids from certain kinds of 
food, will finally cause the lymphatic system to absorb and 
inject into the blood more acid than can be extracted by 
the kidneys and thrown off in the urine. When these con- 
ditions exist, for any great length of time, the blood will 
finally become so heavily loaded with acids and the conse- 
quent acid deposits, as to produce a rheumatic diathesis. 

The continued presence of an excessive quantity of uric 
and other acids in the blood results as indicated above, in 
the crystalizing and forming of acid deposits in the small 
blood vessels, especially in those around the joints. These 
minute mineral deposits may increase or diminish in size 
and extent, and may be driven frequently from one part of 
the body to the other. The increase and decrease of acid 
deposits in. the blood accounts for the stopping of pains at 
times, while the tendency of the deposits to be driven to 



THE RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS. 37 

different parts of the body explains the frequent changes 
in the location of the rheumatic pains. 

An acute or sudden attack of rheumatism, which after- 
wards disappears for a while, is frequently thought to be 
the result of a severe cold, or exposure to inclement 
weather, or dampness. This is a mistaken idea, and illus- 
trates forcibly how easy and natural it is to lose sight of 
the primary cause of any disease. The truth is, that in 
the case of a sudden and temporary rheumatic attack, the 
bad cold or exposure simply results in embarrassing the 
action of the kidneys, so that they will not extract as much 
acid from the blood as before they became congested. 
From this it is clear that the cold, dampness or exposure, 
instead of being the primary cause of the attack, are sim- 
ply incidental agents which cause the rheumatic condition 
of the blood to suddenly manifest itself. It is also appar- 
ent from this course of reasoning, that the acidified condi- 
tion of the blood is the cause of both acute and chronic 
rheumatism, and that in the acute cases, the cause was 
smouldering in the system ready to break forth whenever 
the kidneys should become temporarily embarrassed. 

Having clearly shown that the primary cause of both 
acute and chronic rheumatism is the presence in the blood 
of too large a percentage of certain acids, resulting in 
mineral acid deposits, the next all important question to 
sufferers from rheumatic pains, is how to dissolve the acid 
deposits already in the blood, also how to cut off the ex- 
cessive supply of acids going into the blood. It is clear 
that the accomplishing of these two results must inevitably 
lead to the permanent curing of rheumatic pains. In the 
treatment of this disease, my first step is to make out a 
DIET CHART of each kind of food that my patient shall 
be allowed to eat, cutting off all those articles which sup- 



38 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

ply acid to the blood in too large a quantity. It should 
not be understood, however, that my practical application 
of the science of DIET, means poor living, or a scanty 
supply of food. On the contrary, a person can live better 
and longer with my system of DIET, which will be fully 
explained further along in this treatise. Having cut off 
the excessive supply of acid by a scientific selection of 
food, my next step is to administer natural vegetable juices 
which dissolve the acid deposits of the blood. As fast as 
liquefied, the acid deposits are extracted by an increased 
action of the kidneys. As a final safeguard against a pos- 
sible return of the disease, I restore the lymphatic system 
to a vigorous and natural action, so that it will reject, or 
keep out of the blood, any temporary increased acid supply 
that might, by mistake, be taken into the system. Many 
afflicted with distorted joints, and thousands of other grate- 
ful patients from all parts of the world, attest the efficiency 
of this common sense mode of treatment. 

THE GOUTY DIATHESIS. 

The fact that many of the contributing causes of GOUT 
differ widely from those of rheumatism, has led many to 
treat them as entirely separate diseases. The fact is, that 
while many of the causes are different, the NET RESULT in 
cases of gout is an over acidified condition of the blood 
with mineral deposits somewhat similar to those in rheu- 
matic cases. While rny specific treatment for gout neces- 
sarily varies from that for rheumatism, yet the successive 
steps necessitated for its elimination and permanent cure, 
are essentially the same. My extended European experi- 
ence in gouty affections, has enabled me to achieve the 
most gratifying results in this hitherto somewhat obscure 
disease. 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE CORPULENT DIATHESIS. 



Excessive corpulency, or general fatness of the body, is 
the result of a diseased diathesis and is not an evidence of 
health and vigor, as many suppose. The deposit of thick 
layers of fat in various parts of the body is the result of a 
disturbance or derangement of the functions of assimila- 
tion and nutrition, brought about largely by eating and 
drinking those things which prevent the proper oxidation 
of food. This tendency to corpulency is frequently trans- 
mitted from parents to the children, in which case the dis- 
eased processes of assimilation and nutrition is inherited, 
and as the child approaches nearer the meridian of life, the 
abnormal piling up of fat increases unless scientific medical 
and dietetic treatment is resorted to. But while corpu- 
lency is inherited by some, in a large class of cases it is 
directly produced by eating and drinking the wrong kinds 
of food, and not the result of eating too much. Of course 
the continued taking into the system of elements of food 
not suited to a person's body, will eventually result in a 
diseased condition of the functions of assimilation and 
nutrition, the same as in cases of inherited corpulency. 
From this it follows that whether corpulence or excessive 
fatness is inherited or acquired by habits of life, the condi- 
tions are practically the same, and both must be treated as 
a constitutional disease. 

The successful treatment of obesity or excessive fatness 
can only be accomplished through the science of DIET and 
the administration of harmless, natural, vegetable juices 



40 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

that will perfect the process of nutrition and restore the 
natural functions of the lymphatics, so that they will throw 
off, instead of absorb, an excessive supply of fat producing 
nutriment. 

The large number of so called anti-fat medicines, belts, 
etc., now on the market, are either worthless or dangerous 
catch-penny devices. If these alleged anti-fat cures are 
really capable of reducing flesh, then they are dangerous 
in the extreme, as no two constitutions can safely be 
treated exactly alike. Many of these preparations or ap- 
pliances are simply useless, gotten up for the express pur- 
pose of filching the hard earned dollars from the pockets 
of the people. Any person claiming to successfully treat 
cases of corpulency without increasing the nerve force and 
scientifically selecting the food the patient should eat, may 
also be safely set down as dangerous or incompetent. Do 
you ask why ? Simply because it is a physical impossi- 
bility to safely cure obesity without forbidding the use of 
excessive fat producing foods and substituting in their 
place more muscle, bone and nerve producing articles of 
diet. By the use of one of my specially prepared anti- 
corpulent DIET CHARTS, which are entered according to 
act of congress, a person can have an abundance of the 
very best kinds of food, and yet avoid eating those useless 
articles which simply create flabby fat, yet fail to nourish 
the bones, muscles and nerves of the body. 

In the vast variety of cases of excessive fatness treated 
and cured by me, every one was afflicted with some other 
complication, as a logical result of corpulency. In most 
all cases the other complication accompanying obesity, 
was a lack of nerve power, which had to be restored before 
my patient could possibly enjoy good health, no matter 
how much the surplus fat had been reduced. Indeed the 



THE CORPULENT DIATHESIS. 41 

plan of reducing the excessive fat of the body without sci- 
entific treatment to increase nerve power, would have been 
an unsafe expedient in many of the cases that have come 
under my treatment. I therefore, unhesitatingly, pro- 
nounce it as unsafe for persons afflicted with obesity 
to place themselves under the treatment of those who 
UNDERSTAND but the ONE DISEASE of excessive fatness. 
A careful reading of chapter three of this book, on the 
nervous diathesis, will aid my fleshy readers in deciding 
whether or not they have a nervous complication as well 
as a corpulent diathesis. 

As elsewhere indicated in this chapter, my treatment for 
obesity or corpulency is not only uniformly successful, but 
absolutely harmless. In every case treated by me the sur- 
plus flesh was greatly reduced without leaving wrinkles on 
the face or body, the skin being contracted as the flesh 
was reduced. When my corpulent patients live at a dis- 
tance where it is not convenient to visit my medical and 
surgical institution, they can be treated just as success- 
fully by mail, provided they answer fully all the ques- 
tions I ask before taking the case for treatment. It is 
my invariable practice to carefully study each case, and 
then let the applicant know whether a cure is possible in 
that case. This is my universal rule in the treatment of 
all chronic and difficult diseases within the range of my 
specialties. I will say, however, for the encouragement of 
those afflicted with excessive fatness, that in my experi- 
ence about eleven out of twelve cases can be cured. The 
incurable cases are only those few where fatty degenera- 
tion of the vital organs is so far advanced as to place the 
life of the patient in imminent danger. 

Some of the distressing symptoms of obesity are difficult 
breathing, increasing weakness as the fat increases, head- 



42 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



ache, pains in the region of the heart ; also labored action 
of the heart, resulting from fatty accumulations. There is 
also a long list of additional symptoms which are usually 
the result of complications of other diseases, largely pro- 
moted or aggravated by obesity. The greatest danger 
resulting from continued neglect in cases of excessive fat- 
ness, is the accumulation of too much fat around the heart 
and the fatty degeneration of the muscles of all the vital 
organs. Below will be found two tables of the natural 
weights for men and women of different heights : 



WHAT A WOMAN SHOULD WEIGH. 

Lb*. 

5 feet ioo 

5 feet i inch 106 

5 feet 2 inches 113 

5 feet 3 inches 119 

5 feet 4 inches 130 

5 feet 5 inches 138 

5 feet 6 inches 144 

5 feet 7 inches 150 

5 feet 8 inches 155 

5 feet 9 inches 163 

5 feet 10 inches 169 

5 feet 11 inches 176 

6 feet 180 

6 feet 1 inch 186 

A woman's weight may vary a 
few pounds either way. A lady's 
waist should be about two-fifths of 
her height. 



WHAT A MAN SHOULD WEIGH. 



5 feet. 
5 feet 
5 feet 

5 feet 
5 feet 
*5 feet 
5 ^et 
5 feet 
5 feet 
5 feet 
5 feet 

5 feet 

6 feet. 
6 feet 



1 inch 

2 inches.. 

3 inches... 

4 inches... 

5 inches... 

6 inches... 

7 inches... 

8 inches... 

9 inches... 

10 inches. 

11 inches. 



inch 



The proper weight of a man 
vary several pounds either way 



Lbs. 
120 

I2 5 
130 

135 
140 

H5 
150 

*65 

160 

165 

170 

175 
180 

190 
may 



LEANNESS. 

There is another numerous class of cases the exact op- 
posite of corpulency or excessive fatness: I refer to that 
undesirable condition of leanness, which is caused by the 
failure of the functions of assimilation and nutrition. 
Without the proper action of the lymphatics in absorbing 



THE CORPULENT DIATHESIS. 43 

fat producing nutriment, the various agents of nutrition 
can not deposit sufficient fat to properly round out the 
body. In my successful treatment of thousands of cases of 
leanness, I have found it necessary to not only put my 
patients on a fat producing DIET, but also to administer 
natural vegetable juices that would revitalize the lympha- 
tics, so that they would absorb and throw into the blood 
more of the fat producing elements of food. My extended 
experience in this class of cases, convinces me that any 
amount of tonics and the numerous other things alleged to 
produce fat, cannot possibly accomplish that result unless 
the lymphatic absorbents of the body are restored to a 
sufficiently vigorous action to absorb more of the oily ele- 
ments of food and to reject those things which tend to 
cause a state of leanness. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE CANCEROUS DIATHESIS. 



All forms of cancerous growths have their origin in the 
lymphatic glands of the body, and are not a disease of the 
blood, as many suppose. This theory is sustained by the 
fact that cancers are invariably found to be adjacent to, 
and in direct communication with these glands. The fact 
that the cancerous cell structures are in the lymphatics, 
convinces me that the nucleus of every cancer is held in 
solution somewhere in the lymphatic system. The extreme 
poisonous character of these cancerous nuclei, doubtless 
causes the lymphatic safeguards of the body to prevent 
them from passing into the blood. Thus, while acting as 
a strainer and protector for the blood, this delicate glandu- 
lar system becomes itself the lodging place for the cancer- 
ous poison, which, when the conditions are favorable, cause 
the formation of cancerous cells. These cell structures 
feed upon the morbid products of the system and finall) 
make themselves manifest as cancerous growths in various 
parts of the body, but more especially in the uterus, the 
female breast, the stomach, the large intestines, and espec- 
ially in the rectum. 

The removing of REAL cancers with the knife, or plas- 
ters, which destroy the tissues, is a very doubtful expedient, 
inasmuch as by such a process it is impossible to eradicate 
the cancerous nuclei from the glandular system. The cut- 
ting out, or plastering out of one cancer, seems to result ir 
turning the morbid products which went to feed it, to the 
building up of another cancerous structure from a hitherto 



THE CANCEROUS DIATHESIS. 45 

dormant cancer nucleus lurking in the lymphatic absorbents 
of the body. The only effective mode of treatment that I 
have yet discovered, is to administer certain powerful, yet 
harmless chemicalized vegetable juices, which act directly 
upon the lymphatic glands and destroy the cancerous pois- 
on, or nuclei, by a powerful, antagonistic chemical action. 
Having neutralized, or destroyed the power of every can- 
cer nucleus, the life of the cancer cell is thus destroyed 
and the growth gradually dries up and disappears for want 
of its former morbid nourishment. Of course, if a cancer 
has reached its last stage of ulceration, it is then likely to 
poison the system the same, only more so, than other less 
poisonous forms of ulceration. In this latter stage I do 
not claim that destroying the original nucleus of the cancer 
would consequently save the life of the patient, because 
the cancerous growth already developed is sufficient to 
menace, or destroy the life of the body. But in all cases > 
except where a cancer has reached its later stages of de- 
velopment, my experience satisfies me that my method of 
destroying the original nucleus of a cancer, will cause it to 
waste away and eventually disappear for a lack of its former ' 
morbid nourishment. An ounce of prevention is, however, 
worth more than a pound of cure; so the safest course for 
those who suspect they have inherited, or acquired a can- 
cerous diathesis, is to take a course of treatment that will 
eradicate every possible cancer nucleus from the glandular 
system before it has manifested itself in the form of a can- 
cerous growth. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE SCROFULOUS DIATHESIS. 



The source of the numerous scrofulous manifestations in 
the human race is primarily an affection of the lymphatic 
glands, and especially of the superficial glands of the neck. 
The morbid products, or excretions of the glands in scrof- 
ulous cases, are of two kinds. First, is that poisonous pro- 
duct of the glands which lies quiescent, or dormant in the 
system for a time, and then breaks out in the ears, eyes, 
nose, lips, or on the neck, and other parts of the body. 
This variety of scrofulous, glandular poison, also results in 
running of the nose and ears, enlargement of the head, 
swelling of the abdomen, and numerous other disagreeable 
and dangerous conditions. The second product of the 
lymphatic glands in cases of a scrofulous diathesis, is that 
which results in tuberculous deposits in the lungs and else- 
where in the body. This second, or tuberculous product 
of scrofula, will be exhaustively treated upon further along 
in this work, under the head of " The Consumptive Diath- 
esis." Both of these varieties of scrofula may be either 
inherited or acquired. 

The scrofulous secretions of the lymphatics, which have 
a tendency, as before stated, to lie dormant for a time, and 
then break out in the most prominent or dangerous parts 
of the body, can be completely, and forever eradicated by 
a scientific treatment of the lymphatic system. By the use 
of certain fresh, vegetable juices, so prepared that they act 
directly upon the diseased lymphatics, without a further 
chemical change, I am enabled to stop the poisonous and 



THE SCROFULOUS DIATHESIS. 47 

dangerous discharge of the glands, and to drive out of the 
system the scrofulous poison already secreted. Those who 
have reason to suspect a scrofulous diathesis by the occas- 
ional, or frequent breaking out of puckered scars and sores 
or other inflamed or itchy eruptions on the body, should 
take immediate steps to eradicate it completely from the 
system before it shall have an opportunity to break out in 
some vital part of the body, or be transmitted to unborn 
posterity.. 



CHAPTER IX. 



DISEASES OF WOMEN. 



No class of sufferers have sought so earnestly for perma- 
nent relief and been so frequently disappointed, as the 
wives, mothers and daughters of the land. Nor is disap- 
pointment the worst thing to which they have been sub- 
jected. On the contrary, no class of patients were ever 
treated with as much immodesty and indignity as confid- 
ing and affectionate womankind. Frequently when they 
have gone forth to seek relief from some of the numerous 
ailments common to their sex, they have been told that 
they must submit to a local examination. Then the suffer- 
ing lady is informed that she must come frequently for 
local applications. These applications, while they may be 
the best thing her physician knows of, are at the best but 
temporary expedients, which cannot result in lasting ben- 
efit, because they do not strike at the cause of the disease. 

My extended experience in the treatment of female 
troubles, and the numerous other ailments peculiar to the 
fair sex, teaches me that while there are a few distinctively 
woman's diseases, the vast majority of affections so named 
are the combined result of several complications. If, for 
instance, my lady readers will carefully peruse a previous 
chapter, on "The Nervous Diathesis," they will doubt- 
less get considerable light on the probable origin or aggra- 
vating agencies of some of the numerous ailments affecting 
their sex. They will also get much other valuable infor- 
mation bearing on some of their complications by a care- 
ful reading of all the other chapters of this book ; but, of 



DISEASES OF WOMEN. 49 



course, not so much that is directly applicable as in the 
treatise on "The Nervous Diathesis," because some 
phase of nervous disease is the direct and first cause of a 
large proportion of their troubles. 

Many of the distressing private organic troubles of the 
sex are simply the logical result of certain conditions of 
the entire system, so that merely local treatment is a vain 
effort to cure the effect instead of shutting off the cause. 
The weaknesses, displacements, fallings and other of the 
more frequent afflictions of womanhood, that cannot be 
mentioned specifically in a book of general circulation, 
may be temporarily relieved but can never be cured by 
the local application process. On the contrary, organic 
weakness of the parts, which is the basis of many distress- 
ing ailments, can only be permanently remedied by sup- 
plying through the system the vital elements which are 
lacking,, to put those parts in a perfectly healthy condition 
as originally designed by nature. It frequently happens 
that the lymphatic absorbents, which select the nourish- 
ment for the different organs and parts of the body, are so 
unnatural in their action that they utterly fail to absorb 
and throw into the blood the vital elements necessary to 
the natural strength of the private parts. This lack of 
nutriment must, sooner or later, result in weakness and 
failure of the supporting muscles, an exhausted condition 
of the nerves of sensation and action, and unnatural secre- 
tions of the membranous surfaces. Having corrected the 
action of the lymphatic absorbents so that they will absorb 
and select the proper nourishment for the weak and de- 
ranged portions of the body, it then becomes necessary to 
supply the system with an extra large portion of this lack- 
ing nourishment, until the failing parts have recovered 
their normal strength. I accomplish this result largely 



50 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

by supplying certain fresh vegetable and flower juices, 
which act in harmony with medical foods hitherto lacking 
in the system. The most indisputable and gratifying evi- 
dence of the efficacy of this mode of treatment can be 
found in thousands of homes where former frail, sickly and 
suffering womankind now rejoice in perfect health, and 
engage in the duties and pleasures which pertain to a 
domestic life, with all the zeal and ambition born of a vig- 
orous body and a satisfied mind. Still others, whom or- 
ganic ailments had hitherto rendered childless, are now 
singing lullaby songs to a healthy offspring that has come 
to bless the home. 



CHAPTER X. 



MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES. 



THE HEART AND ITS DISEASES. 




CAVITY OF THE HEART. 



The average weight of the heart in health, in the male, 
is nine ounces ; in acute diseases, from nine to eleven 



52 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



ounces ; and in chronic diseases, eight to ten ounces. In 
females, in health, nine and one-half ounces ; in acute dis- 
eases, eight to ten ounces ; and in chronic diseases, seven 
and one-quarter to nine ounces. Diseases of the heart are 
divided into functional and organic diseases. 





ENLARGEMENT OF THE HEART, 
WITH INCREASED THICKNESS. 



FATTY DEGENERATION OF THI 

HEART, CAUSED BY EATING THE 

WRONG KIND OF FOOD. 



FUNCTIONAL DISEASES. 

All functional diseases are merely sympathetic and are 
caused by either the nervous, dyspeptic, gouty, or rheu- 
matic diathesis, although the two latter diatheses, by pro- 
ducing structural changes in the heart, also cause organic 
diseases, and for this reason, functional diseases should 
have the proper treatment as early as possible, so as to 
prevent organic changes. I refer the readers to the 



MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES. 53 

chapters on the above mentioned diatheses for further 
information. 

ORGANIC HEART DISEASES. 



DISEASES OK THE VAEVES OK THE HEART. 

The valves of the heart may be impaired either by im- 
flammation or by degeneration. Changes, may occur by 
simple thickening or by deposits of fibroid, fatty, or cal- 
careous material, or by atrophy, contraction, adhesion or 
ulceration of the valves or gouty deposits of urates and 
carbonates of soda and lime. 

DIEATATION OK THE HEART. 

Complicated dilatation is frequent ; it may depend on a 
debilitated state of the cardiac muscle, valvular disease or 
an obstruction beginning in organs remote from the heart. 

FATTY DEGENERATION OK THE HEART 

Is a substitution of fatty substance for the muscular tissue 
of the heart, to such an extent as to interfere with its 
normal action. 



TREATMENT. 

Organic diseases of the heart are incurable ; especially 
those where structural changes have taken place ; but with 
proper treatment, they can all be benefitted to such an 
extent, that the patient is not aware that he has such 
a disease. Every person having heart disease, owes it to 
himself to have such proper treatment in time, as he can 
prevent a great deal of suffering and anxiety, and prolong 
life for years. 



54 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS. 




THE KIDNEYS. 



CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE 
KIDNEYS. 

This chronic inflammation of the kidneys is generally 
the result of neglecting occasional trouble with those 
organs. Swelling of the limbs makes its appearance first, 
the urine becomes scanty and contains albumen, and an 
anaemic condition follows, and the patient's strength soon 
fails. 



MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES. 



55 



PHOSPHATURIA. 

This condition as called above, is a secretion of a 
slightly acid urine, whitish and turbid when voided, and 
which speedily deposits an abundant sediment. This con- 
dition exists in excessive waste of brain and nerve tissue. 



CHYI^UiriA. 

In Chyluria we find in the urine fat in minute divisions 
which gives a milky appearance to the same. On standing, 
the fat rises to the surface forming a distinct layer. 



BRIGHT'S DISEASE, OR ALBUMINURIA. 

In most cases of Bright's 
disease, the affection begins 
slowly. Perhaps in months, or 
after several years, the atten- 
tion of the patient is called to 
failure of strength, pallor or 
sallowness, puffiness under the 
eyes, slight swelling of ankles 
at night, frequent calls to void 
urine. Albumen is found in the 
urine ; dropsy is liable to 
occur, dryness of the skin, de- 
rangements of digestion, head- 
ache, etc. The duration of 
this disease varies within a 
wide limit ; but the usual 
period is from two to three 

CONDITION OF THE KIDNEY IN r 

bright's disease. years. 




56 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

DIABETES. 

In this disease, there is a persistent pressure and ex- 
cessive quantity of sugar in the urine. It is attended by 
dryness of the skin and mouth, thirst, increased appetite, 
muscular weakness, and copious excretion of urine of 
light specific gravity. 

TREATMENT. 

In all diseases of the kidneys, it is necessary that the 
urine be both chemically and microscopically examined. 

Diet and the proper vegetable remedies, will cure any of 
the diseases above mentioned. 



DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 



Of all diseases with which the human family is afflicted, 
none resist more measures for treatment than skin disor- 
ders of a chronic nature. Prolonged practical experience 
and careful scientific study of each individual case is nec- 
essary to master these terrible and frequent diseases. As 
the skin covers the entire external surface of the body, 
and has many uses in the animal economy, its diseased 
condition is therefore generally attended with a vast 
amount of inconvenience to the afflicted person. The ap- 
pearance of skin diseases may be divided as follows : 

PIMPLES. — A layer of cuticle, hard, thickened, whitish 
and opaque. 

RASH. — Red patches on the skin. 

Bleb. — A large portion of the cuticle detracted from 
the skin by the interposition of a transparent, watery fluid. 

VESICLE. — A small elevation of the cuticle containing a 
clear or colorless, but often opaque and whitish liquid. 



MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES. 57 

PASTULA. — An elevation of the cuticle, with an inflamed 
base, containing matter. 

TUBERCLE. — A small, hard, superficial tumor, circum- 
scribed and permanent, or proceeding very slow to suppur- 
ation. 

Stain. — A permanent discoloration of some portion of 
the skin. 

Eczema, Herpes, Rupia, Scabies, Acne, Psoriasis, Pit- 
yriasis, Ichthyosis, Elephantiasis, Leprosy, Lupus and the 
Syphilides or Syphilitic diseases, are some of the principal 
skin diseases, and all diseases of the nails, hair and the 
complexion being under the heading of skin diseases. 

It is not my intention to speak fully of all diseases of 
the skin, as space forbids ; but merely to call attention to 
my method of treatment. Diet, with the necessary local 
and constitutional remedies, will surely cure every curable 
case. It may not be out of place here to warn all patients 
of the so called skin and blood cures, as nearly all of them 
contain either arsenic or mercury, and the continued use 
of these remedies, for any length of time, will positively 
do permanent injury to the system. 



DISEASES OF THE RECTUM AND ANUS. 



Many cases of the above mentioned diseases are treated 
annually in my institution. The treatment is painless, 
without the use of the knife or cautery, and does not inter- 
fere with the daily vocation. The following are the prin- 
cipal diseases of the rectum and anus : Hemorrhoids or 
Piles, Abscess, Fistula, Prolapse, Ulceration, Cancer, Stric- 
ture, Tumors and Pruritus or itching at the anus. 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE SCIENCE OF DIET. 



The prevention and treatment of disease by the admin- 
istration of proper food suggested itself to the earliest 
observers, and in its simplest sense certainly does not 
require a profound knowledge of either physiology or 
pathology in order to harmonize the idea with common 
sense and sound philosophy. There can be no question 
that many of the diseased diatheses common to humanity 
are due to errors in diet and faulty assimilation. Although 
the digestion of food is one of the simplest of animal 
functions, if interrupted or at all interfered with, the most 
harassing results follow. There is no doubt that as a re- 
sult of defective digestion, certain poisonous compounds 
are developed in the alimentary canal, and on being ab- 
sorbed, are capable of producing varied and grave results. 
I am also positive that all chronic diseases are either 
caused or aggravated by improper articles of food and 
drink. 

Diet does not interfere or do away with the judicious 
use of remedies. These must also be employed, but until 
physicians will thoroughly appreciate the influence of diet 
and know how to regulate and assist the digestive processes 
by appropriate measures, their treatment will be in vain. 

Diet does not mean starvation — in fact it really means 
more what NOT to eat and drink than anything else, and 
therefore the knowledge of diet can not be learned in a 
day, week or month. I have made a special study of the 
science of diet for more than a quarter of a century, and I 






THE SCIENCE OF DIET. 59 



claim that I am the first physician in the world who ever 
perfected a system of diet by chart, that is as perfect as it 
can possibly be made — it combines all the principles of 
food in classes, and is so simple that any person can under- 
stand the same. MY DIET CHART is entered accord- 
ing to act of congress, and is accompanied by scientific 
suggestions concerning the proper preparation of the food 
prescribed in each case. No general rules for diet can ever 
be given — but each individual case must be studied by 
itself, temperament, hereditary tendency, peculiar idiosyn- 
crasies, all must be taken into consideration. It must be 
like a physician writing a prescription for a patient — he 
also should write, or rather fill out a chart for his patient 
what to eat and drink and how to live and obey the laws 
of life. 

Food includes everything ingested and which goes di- 
rectly or indirectly to the growth or repair of the body, or 
to the production of energy in any form. 

In order that food shall be digested and absorbed, two 
conditions are necessary: The food must be in a fit state 
to be digested, and it must meet in the alimentary canal 
with chemical and physical conditions which can digest 
and absorb it. 

Fitness for digestibility depends partly on the original 
nature of the substance as to hardness and cohesion, or 
chemical nature, and partly on the manner in which it can 
be changed chemically by cooking. 

In order to insure good health, variety must be intro- 
duced into the food and different substances of the same 
class must be alternately employed. 

Every scientific physician admits that in all diseases it 
is very essential that the patient should receive proper 
instructions as to what to eat and drink. How many 



60 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

physicians now-a-days pay any attention to this? Why is 
it that in this country, (so entirely different from European 
countries, where physicians always pay special attention 
to dieting), are to be found so many persons suffering from 
some chronic affection ? But let me ask, did these sufferers 
use a proper diet while taking medicine and treatment? 
"No!" will always be the answer. They will say our 
physician never told us anything about how we should live 
or what we should eat, drink or do ; all he said was, take 
this medicine so and so, and if this does not help you we 
will have to try something else. Yes, you have been try- 
ing something else ever since — the effect was always the 
same ; stimulation would perhaps, if the treatment acted at 
all, make you feel a little better for a short time, but soon 
it was the same old story again. How can you expect a 
medicine or any treatment to act properly if you are con- 
tinually eating, drinking and doing things which are coun- 
teracting the effects of the treatment used ? 

But who is to blame for this condition of things? Why, 
the physicians. There is not one medical college in this 
country that teaches its students anything about diet ; con- 
sequently not one physician in a hundred has ever studied 
the proper mode of dieting, especially in diseases of a 
chronic nature. 

The wonderful success that I have attained with my sys- 
tem of treatment in diseases of long standing, is due to 
placing the patient under proper diet and administering 
certain natural fresh vegetable juices that would act in 
harmony with the food prescribed. I do not prescribe a 
diet which is hard to get, but a diet which the rich or poor 
can equally have and enjoy. 

I therefore furnish each patient under my care with one 
of my original diet charts, the proper diet being marked 



THE SCIENCE OF DIET. 61 



out for each individual case, and which tells them what to 
eat, drink, and how to live, and especially what to avoid. 
If all will faithfully follow these directions and instruc- 
tions, ninety-nine patients out of every hundred who have 
suffered pains, agonies and distress for years, and who 
have given up all hope of getting well again, will once 
more -be returned to health and happiness. 

But on the other hand, if you will keep on eating, drink- 
ing and living contrary to nature's laws — keep on taking 
every patent medicine your neighbor recommends to 
you — keep on swallowing the medicines your physician is 
prescribing for you, a life of misery, pain and wretched- 
ness will await you. 

Now, which one will you have ? 

Judge for yourself and act accordingly. 






CHAPTER XII. 



FRESH VEGETABLE JUICES. 



As I have had occasion to refer frequently in these 
pages to my administration of " fresh, vegetable juices" in 
the treatment of diseases, it may not be out of place here 
to add a few words regarding the scientific process of pre- 
paring my original, natural remedies. My extended exper- 
ience in a large private practice and hospital work in both 
Europe and America, enables me to draw from the veget- 
able kingdom of both continents. Through the aid of sci- 
entific research and experiment and an exhaustive botanic 
and chemical knowledge, I have been enabled to secure 
from roots, barks, herbs, leaves, berries and flowers, natural 
remedies that act in harmony with certain foods in restor- 
ing health to the body and in eradicating disease. Even 
those of my readers not familiar with the science of chem- 
istry itself, are doubtless aware how difficult it is to always 
get the same chemical effect from a given remedy. I was 
well aware that many skilled physicians, even when em- 
ploying the proper remedy, have failed in the treatment of 
a disease because the remedy did not have the expected 
effect. To guard against such fatal failures in medicinal 
action, and to secure a uniform chemical effect for my 
system of vegetable juices, I devised an original process 
for their preparation. 

During my experiments I invariably got uniform chemi- 
cal results when the vegetable juices were fresh and una- 
dulterated. I reasoned from this fact that purity and 
freshness were the great essentials for uniform medicinal 



FRESH VEGETABLE JUICES. 63 

action. I accordingly put the juices through a process of 
re-distillation and preservation as soon as they had been 
extracted from the fresh material under hydraulic pressure. 
I found that this process rendered the juices absolutely 
unchangeable and preserved them in all their native fresh- 
ness ; so I ordered my special chemist in Europe to pre- 
pare all my European vegetable juices by this process, 
and required the German chemist in my American labora- 
tory to follow minutely the same plan of preparation. As 
a result of carrying on this expensive process in both 
Europe and America, I have never yet been disappointed 
in the action of my fresh vegetable juices, when the patient 
followed directions. The grateful patients from all quar- 
ters of the globe who have been restored to health and 
happiness by these remarkable, natural remedies, aided by 
my scientific system of DIET, furnish overwhelming evi- 
dence of the efficacy of my system of treatment. 



PLATE III. 




LYMPHATIC SYSTEM OF THE ABDOMEN AND PELVIS. 



PREFACE TO PART II. 



|f§f|N the preceding chapters of Part I, of this book, I 
| have discussed only those diseases which are treated 
^JpL$ and cured chiefly through the aid of the science of 
^^ diet, and my original, fresh, vegetable juices taken 
into the system through the stomach. 

In the following chapters contained in Part II, I shall 
treat exclusively of that large, most difficult and danger- 
ous class of diseases which have their seat in the mucous 
lining of the nose, head, ears, throat, and in the organs of 
respiration. I have chosen to cluster my consideration of 
these diseases all together in Part II, for the reason that 
the principal agency employed by me in their treatment 
and cure is my original system of "dry medicated air," 
and " dry inhalation," which are not applicable in any of 
the diseases considered in Part I. 



ZF^LRT II. 

CHAPTER I. 



JQOoyetrs 

Inhalation is the act of inspiring, or drawing in the 
breath. In medical parlance, it means breathing medi- 
cines, gases or air into the lungs and cavities of the nose, 
head and ears instead of taking them into the stomach. 

INHALATION IN OLDEN TIMES. 

The inhalation of certain gases for healing purposes was 
practiced in the earliest times ; the Greek physicians, Hip- 
pocrates, Galen and Celcus, prescribed the inhalation of 
different vapors. Its mode of administration was a com- 
mon pot with perforated lid, through which the vapors 
were inhaled into the open mouth. Galen also recom- 
mended to his patients suffering from lung disease, to 
reside near the sea shore, in order to breath the sea air. 
In the third and fourth centuries we find physicians rec- 



2000 YEARS ANCIENT AND MODERN INHALATIONS. 67 

ommending inhalations, which continued to be used by 
physicians until the ninth century, and especially by the 
Arabian physicians, who lauded them very highly. 

From the ninth century until the middle of the seven- 
teenth century, very little mention is made of the use of 
inhalations in medicine, but in the latter century the in- 
halation of hot water vapor, combined with aromatics and 
balsams, was extensively used in the treatment of lung 
affections. At the commencement of the present century, 
a new era in the history of inhalation took place. Appa- 
ratuses were constructed for the inhalation of gases, vapors, 
atmospheric air, etc.; patients even were instructed to 
breathe artificial air, as, for instance, the air in the cow 
stable, certain factories, rooms filled with water vapors or 
filled with the smoke produced by the burning of different 
medicines, or the patient was ordered natural inhalations, 
which consisted of change of climate, to live in certain 
woods, in the mountains, sea shore, etc. 

INHALATION OK THE PRESENT DAY. 

Every intelligent physician now concedes that in the 
treatment of all diseases of the air passages, the inhalation 
treatment as an adjunct with dietary and hygienic meas- 
ures, stands without a rival. The great drawback to this 
treatment has been the want of suitable apparatuses and 
the need of a proper way to prepare medicines so that 
they would have the desired results. There are a great 
many different apparatuses and methods for inhalation in 
use at the present day, but I regret to say that most of 
them have proven faulty in many respects. The steam 
inhaling machines are dangerous, very often the boilers 
exploding, and severely scalding the operator and patient. 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



The different spray atomizers are simply cleansing ma- 
chines. Liquid sprays never reach the lungs and remote 
cavities of the nose, ears and bronchial tubes. The so 
called vaporizers and condensed air methods are a delu- 
sion. I might go on and prove that all the inhalation 
methods used at the present time are not what they should 
and could be. While many of these methods relieve a 
patient for a time, they never actually cure, for the reason 
that by their methods they never reach the lungs proper, 
and the other remote cavities of the air passages. In call- 
ing attention to my now celebrated Dry INHALATION 
METHOD, I desire to state that for the radical cure of lung, 
throat and nasal diseases, it continues to stand all by 
itself, with a record quite unprecedented in the healing 
art. The treatment proves agreeable to the most sensi- 
tive patients. The expenditure, even in protracted cases, 
falls far below the cost incurred in long and fatiguing jour- 
neys to medicinal springs and other remote sanitaria, ex- 
periments so often resulting in harm and disappointment 
to the afflicted. 

Before explaining The Dry INHALATION METHOD and 
my own apparatus for the use of the method, I will show 
my readers why diseases of the air passages can be cured 
by the inhalation process. 

ITS PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL 

EFFECTS. 

Is it not a little surprising that inhalation in some way 
or other should have been used in treating diseases for 
nearly two thousand years, and that we should still find so 
much ignorance on the subject by both the professional 
men and the people in general ? The majority of physic- 



2000 YEARS ANCIENT AND MODERN INHALATIONS. 69 

ians, when the question is propounded to them, " How 
does inhalation act — how can inhalation cure disease?" 
will answer by admitting their ignorance on this subject. 
Their excuse will be that they have not paid any attention 
to inhalation. Must not a sense of shame come over them 
when they peruse this work and read testimonials of per- 
sons who have been cured of a disease which they perhaps 
have always considered incurable. Does it not speak vol- 
umes in praise of the inhalation method, in reading over 
the list of cures, when it is taken into consideration that 
most of my patients were taken from just this class, and 
that each of their diseases was considered a desperate one ? 
How often have patients come to me, saying, "We have 
really lost faith in everything;" and still, on examining 
their case, I found their disease a very simple one, which 
yielded readily to my treatment. Think of this, reader, 
and make your conjectures accordingly. But again to our 
subject. The effects of inhalation are of a three-fold char- 
acter, (we of course must always consider that the proper 
medicine is being inhaled for the particular case), viz: 
Mechanical, Chemical, Physiological. 

MECHANICAL EFFECTS. 

The frequent practice of forcible inspiration and expir- 
ation causes expansion of the air cells, which is very often 
necessary in certain lung affections. 

CHEMICAL EFFECTS. 

The human body is composed of fourteen different sub- 
stances, and in many diseases some of these substances are 
lacking. By replenishing the same, which can be done 



70 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

through inhalation more so than by any other means, the 
disease is cured at once. 

PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS. 

The physiological effects of inhalation, properly so 
called, are those which take place by virtue of the vital 
properties of the body by acting, 

1. On the circulation. 

2. On secretion and excretion. 

CIRCULATION. 

The effect of inhalation on the circulation is somewhat 
complex. It includes the effect on the heart and arteries, 
as well as on the nervous system. The average ultimate 
effect is to increase the flow of blood, raise the tempera- 
ture and dilate the veins. Hence, after a proper inhalation, 
the hands and feet become warmer and remain warmer for 
hours. 

ON SECRETION AND EXCRETION. 

The secreting organs of the body are very markedly 
influenced by inhalation. The usual effect is to increase 
their activity. It will increase the healthy secretions and 
stop the poisonous secretions of the mucous membranes, 
which can be proven in the treatment of all kinds of 
catarrh, and also in exhausting diseases, associated with 
dryness of the mucous membranes. 

The secretion of the sweat glands is also increased. 
After an inhalation, perspiration will ensue, and I have 
seen persons after one inhalation, when large drops of 
sweat would appear on the forehead, and it made the 
hands as moist as though they had been dipped in water. 



200O YEARS ANCIENT AND MODERN INHALATIONS. 71 

THE DRY INHALATION METHOD. 



A combination of wool, fur and cotton is washed, 
bleached and purified, and is then added to a necessary 
quantity of vegetable juice or juices, which I desire to use 
for some particular disease. Then all the materials are 
put under hydraulic pressure until every particle of the 
juice or juices is thoroughly mixed with the wool, etc. 
Then the medicated wool is carded and transferred to a 
sterilizing machine for two hours, at a temperature of 228 
degrees Fahrenheit. Then it is again transferred to a dry- 
ing and purifying apparatus, and is finally stored away in 
air-tight metal cases until it is wanted for the inhaling 
apparatus. For home use I have invented the apparatus 
shown by cut on page 72, which is filled with medicated 
material, and through suction, atmospheric air is forced 
through the cylinder and inhaled into the nose, throat and 
lungs, or is forced into the ears, as the case makes it neces- 
sary. For office treatment the machine shown by cut on 
page 73, marked " Office Apparatus," is used. The atmos- 
pheric air is forced through this apparatus with the aid of 
my hydraulic combination air suction machine. The same 
medicinal results can, however, be obtained from my "home 
treatment machine," as are produced by my large office 
inhaling apparatus, the only difference being that my office 
apparatus will treat more people in the same length of 
time. 

The apparatus for home use when once charged will last 
about a month, and then must be refilled. The material 
for refilling can be sent by mail. 



72 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



DRY INHALING APPARATUS FOR HOME 

USE. 




A. Air tube, atmospheric air entering chamber B. 

B.— Prescribed medicated material charged in opening D. 
C.— -Chamber holding the evaporation produced by atmos- 
pheric air passing through chamber B and dry medicated 
air contained therein. D.— Opening to put in the pre- 
pared medicated material. E.— Air-tight rubber valve. 

F. Drawing tube from which the patient inhales the dry 

air through the mouth. G.— Handle to hold the appa- 
ratus. H.— Opening from which the dry air is inhaled. 



DRY INHALING APPARATUS FOR OFFICE USE 




cess 
ment 



Additional information regarding the scientific actions of my "dry inhalation pro- 



will be found in the latter part of the next chapter, under the heading- "Treat-I 
of the Catarrhal Diathesis." s 



CHAPTER II. 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 



There is hardly a man, woman, or child in the world, 
who has not had a cold in the head ; but how few pay any 
attention to it at this stage. They say : " Oh, it is only 
a little cold in the head and will soon pass away." Yes, 
reader, it is only a cold, which, if not properly treated and 
the frequent relapses prevented, will sooner or later de- 
velop into that dread disease Catarrh, which numbers its 
victims by the thousands and causes untold misery and 
suffering. 

Catarrh is a superficial inflammation of the mucous 
membranes, resulting from frequent exposure to cold or- 
other exciting and irritating causes. The rheumatic, 
scrofulous and nervous diatheses are powerful predisposing 
causes of Catarrh, on account of the impaired condition of 
the system resulting therefrom, and rendering the mucous 
membranes less able to resist disease. The mucous mem- 
branes form the lining coats of all the canals, cavities and 
hollow organs of the body, which communicate externally 
by different apertures on the skin. They belong to two 
great divisions of the body : ist, the organs of respiration 
and digestion ; 2nd, the urinary and genital organs. Sit- 
uated on the inner surface, are numberless, pocket-like, 
depressions or follicles, which under normal conditions, 
furnish sufficient mucus to keep the parts lubricated. 
Under the influence of repeated exposure to cold, their 
activity is greatly increased and large quantities of mucus 
are poured out, speedily undergoing decomposition from 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 75 

atmospheric changes, which renders it highly poisonous 
as well as irritating when swallowed into the stomach, or 
allowed to remain in contact with other parts. The 
mucous membrane being well supplied with lymphatics, as 
well as arteries, veins and nerves, these poisonous sub- 
stances are gradually absorbed and thrown directly into the 
blood, sooner or later infecting the whole system and pro- 
ducing that condition known as the Catarrhal diathesis. 

In all mucous or catarrhal inflammations, if allowed to 
continue, there are three distinct stages which are of 
special importance in their relation to diseases of the 
nose, throat and lungs. Just in proportion as the mem- 
branes have undergone these changes which characterize 
the different stages, is the disease amenable to treatment. 
This shows the importance of commencing treatment 
early, before much change has taken place in the structure 
of the membranes, and before the system has become in- 
fected through the absorption of the poisonous secretions. 

First, is the congestive or inflammatory stage which 
may vary in severity from a mere fit of sneezing, with en- 
gorgement and dryness of the membranes, followed by 
increased secretion of mucus, to a severe systemic dis- 
turbance, manifested by fever, notable rise of temperature, 
chills, etc. The second stage is the thickening of the 
mucous membrane, or hypertrophy, which is the condition 
to be found in the greater number of cases of chronic 
catarrh, which will be described later on. Thirdly, we 
have the stage of hardening and contraction, characterized 
by diminished secretions, frequent ulcerations, terribly 
offensive breath, etc. This style is generally known as 
dry catarrh. These changes are quite common in other 
organs of the body lined by mucous membrane, and have 
well marked symptoms, which, together with the treat- 
ment, will be referred to under their respective headings. 



76 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



As Catarrh is an atmospheric disease, and results from 
sudden exposure to cold and repeated acute attacks, it 
follows that those parts most exposed to such influences, 
as the nose, throat, etc., will be the most frequently 
affected. In describing the different forms of Catarrh, I 
shall proceed to treat of each disease in its regular order, 
commencing with the nose. 

NASAL CATARRH. 




SHOWING ULCERATION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE LINING THE NOSE, 
ALSO A POLYPUS HANGING DOWN IN THE THROAT. 



Nasal Catarrh is a chronic inflammation of the nasal 
mucous membrane resulting from a series of colds in the 
head. 






CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 77 

Certain occupations favor its development, by expos- 
ing the mucous membranes to the irritating action of an 
atmosphere loaded with dust, smoke and other foreign 
substances. The affection frequently follows the inflam- 
mation in cases of measles, scarlatina, hay fever, etc. 

When the affection is the result of frequent colds, the 
membranes become swollen upon the least exposure. This 
condition is accompanied by more or less discharge of 
thick, tenacious mucus, which sometimes assumes an 
offensive character, and is generally drawn through the 
back passages of the nose into the mouth, and expector- 
ated or swallowed. 

As this condition continues, the discharges become 
more offensive, and occasionally form small, greenish 
masses, imparting to the breath a peculiar, heavy or 
offensive odor. A hot, dry, spicy sensation is frequently 
complained of, in the nose and throat ; the membranes 
appearing, upon examination, dry and congested. Ulcera- 
tion sometimes results and may cause perforation and de- 
struction of the nasal bones, allowing the nose to become 
flattened. 

Pain over the eyes, together with a feeling of weight, is 
often complained of. The voice acquires a peculiar, 
muffled sound, complicated with the so called " nasal 
twang," resulting from obstruction of the nasal passages. 
The face frequently assumes a stupid appearance, owing to 
the constantly opened mouth. The sense of smell may be 
impaired or altogether destroyed. 

In still more advanced cases, the discharge is in the 
form of scabs, or lumps, which are of a greenish, brown 
color, sometimes tinged with blood, the scabs sometimes 
preserving the shape of the surface which they covered. 
The odor from these masses or scabs, if allowed to remain 



78 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

in the nose, becomes almost intolerable. Each breath 
becomes saturated with the foul odor. The inhalations 
infect the patient, and the exhalations the atmosphere, 
and make the presence of the sufferers almost unendur- 
able. The mental suffering of a sensitive person afflicted 
with this disease, is very great. He shuns society, and 
the constant dread of rendering himself obnoxious, induces 
him to lead a life of solitude. This, coupled with the 
poisonous effect of the impure air he is forced to inhale, 
together with the absorption into the system, through the 
lymphatics, of septic material, soon impairs the health. 
The complexion is sallow, bowels irregular, appetite poor, 
frequent febrile disturbances, and a general deranged con- 
dition of the system. 



HAY FEVER-HAY ASTHMA-ROSE COLD, &C. 

This disease is a complication of chronic nasal catarrh, 
and is characterized by periodical attacks of acute catarrh, 
occuring as a result of a special susceptibility of certain in- 
dividuals to become influenced by certain substances, 
owing to a deranged state of the nervous system. It has 
been demonstrated that, in a majority of cases, the im- 
mediate exciting cause of hay fever is the pollen of certain 
plants coming in contact with a sensitive area in the nose. 
This will account for the regularity with which the disease 
manifests itself year after year. Among other causes, 
may be mentioned dust, the emanations of certain flowers 
perfumes, sulphur, smoke, cinders, etc. The symptoms 
may be those of a mild cold, lasting only a few days, or 
may cause great suffering. The attack usually begins 
with a sensation of itching in the nostrils, which soon be- 
comes worse, causing violent and prolonged sneezing. , A 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 79 

oricking, burning sensation in the inner part of the eyes, 
iollowed by a profuse flow of tears, is present at this time, 
o: may constitute the first evidence of the attack. The 
ncse soon becomes closed, a watery discharge appears, 
socn becoming very profuse. Chilly sensations, frontal 
headache, ringing in the ears, loss of smell and taste; also 
a violent itching at the roof of the mouth is nearly always 
present and asthma frequently occurs as a complication 
after a few days, usually preceded by sore throat, hoarse- 
ness, slight cough and a feeling of constriction about the 
chest. If the diseased condition of the nose and the sys- 
tem is properly treated before the advent of the attack, its 
return can be prevented in each case. 

NASAL POLYPI, OR TUMORS. 

'These growths are the result of chronic catarrh of the 
nose, and occur in quite a large proportion of cases. The 
symptoms depend upon their position in the cavities and 
their size. No discomfort is felt at first, but as they in- 
crease in size, breathing through the nose becomes embar- 
rassed and is finally altogether arrested. There is frequent 
frontal headache, sneezing and certain reflex symptoms, as 
cough, asthma, facial neuralgia and pain in the neck, chest, 
etc. There is usually a profuse, watery discharge, impair- 
ment of sense of smell, voice becomes nasal, and the eyes 
sometimes red and watery. The growth of these tumors 
can be permanently prevented only by proper constitution- 
al treatment. 

CATARRH OF THE BYES. 

Catarrh of the eyes is the result of the extension to the 
eyes of the inflammation from the nose. The principal 



80 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



characteristic is the granulated condition of the eyelids,/ 
which gives rise to a feeling of grit, or sand in the eyes 
The eyes are irritable and unable to withstand exposure to 
wind, bright glare, dust or to long continued work, with- 
out becoming red, watery and inflamed. The inten- 
sity of the symptoms depend upon the extent and charac- 
ter of the accompanying inflammation. The progress of. 
the disease is apt to be very slow, and relapses very frequent 
but will yield to appropriate local and constitutional 
treatment. 



CATARRH OF THE BAR, 




THE EAR. 



The Auricle, the Auditory Canal, Membrane of the Drum, a section of the 
Eustachian Tube, Cavity of the Drum containing the bones called Mal- 
leus, Anvil round bone and Stapes, the Mastoid Cells and the Labyrinth. 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 



81 



Deafness, partial or complete, is the prominent symptom 
in this condition, and is due to the thickening of the mem- 
branes, resulting from the inflammation, which interferes 
with the normal functions of the parts. In the majority of 
cases the ear trouble is secondary to nasal catarrh, the in- 
flammation passing up the eustachian tube into the middle 
ear. Pain, giddiness, and noises in the ear, in varying de- 
grees of intensity, are present in this disease, frequently 
rendering the patient's life miserable. My experience is 
that neglect of this disease frequently results in complete 
deafness. I have, however, had gratifying success in curing 
the disease even in the latter stage. 



CATARRH OF THE THROAT. 

The symptoms of 
this affection mani- 
fest themselves by a 
dry and parched con- 
dition of the throat, 
followed by a raw 
sensation; voice usu- 
ally hoarse ; frequent 
hacking and cough- 
ing to clear the throat 
of the thick, tenac- 
ious mucus. The 
uvula, or soft palate, 
is generally inflam- 
ed and elongated and 
the tonsils enlarged. 
In certain cases the 
follicles become in- 
flamed especially in those who are obliged to use their 




DISEASE OF THE THROAT. 



82 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

j 

/ 

voice extensively. All the symptoms are usually aggrava- 
ted in this form of throat trouble, and in bad cases, hawk- 
ing, expectorating and coughing become almost constant. 
In old cases dryness is a prominent symptom, due to hard- 
ening and wasting of the membranes. 

CATARRH OF TUB LARYNX. 

This affection of the larynx is due to the same general 
causes that produce the diseases already referred to, and is 
frequently due to extension of inflammation from the parts 
above. The first symptom is a pricking sensation, as 
though a pin was sticking in the throat. Hacking is in- 
dulged in to relieve the larynx of a supposed foreign body 
that cannot be dislodged. The voice soon becomes hoarse, 
which grows worse as the case continues, until in some 
cases, the voice is entirely lost and the patient can speak 
only in a whisper. There is usually difficulty of breathing 
which is very distressing in some cases. Swallowing is 
painful at times and there is more or less cough of a coarse, 
barking character. If long continued, the disease may re- 
sult in ulceration, producing the symptoms of more grave 
affections, as tuberculosis, etc. 

BRONCHITIS, OR BRONCHIAL CATARRH. 

All the causes that are capable of producing the other 
forms of catarrh, may cause bronchitis, or bronchial catarrh. 
It occurs much oftener in the aged and the middle period 
of life than in the young. It is especially associated with 
asthma. Patients complain of a sense of uneasiness, or 
constriction in the region of the bronchial tubes. More or 
less cough is always present and differs very much in differ- 
ent cases as regards frequency and severity. It is parox- 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 83 

ysmal, violent and difficult according to the quantity and 
tenacity of the mucus within the tubes and in proportion 
as the smaller tubes are involved. The expectoration var- 
ies in character and amount in different cases, some- 
times being thin and very profuse. It may consist of large, 
greenish, or ash colored masses, or of small, pearl like pie- 
ces raised after hard coughing. This is characteristic of 
the dry form of catarrhal bronchitis. The sputa may 
sometimes be streaked with blood, or may be of a muco- 
purulent character and is sometimes very offensive. Un- 
less the proper treatment is carried out, the disease is liable 
to become established and persist for years, and in the aged 
for the remainder of life. When contraction has taken 
place in the bronchial tubes and more air enters the lobules 
than can be exhaled, asthma is produced. 

ASTHMA. 

This is characterized by habitually labored breathing, 
especially in expiration, with paroxysms of violent spas- 
modic coughing, during which time the expiratory efforts 
are very labored, caused by bronchial spasms. In some 
forms the paroxysms only manifest themselves upon expos- 
ure to cold, the patient being comparatively free from 
trouble during the intervals, but usually the symptoms of 
chronic bronchitis co-exist. 

CATARRH OF THE STOMACH. 

There is probably no malady more frequently met with 
than catarrh of the stomach. This distressing disease has 
a great many symptoms and causes, for a full description 
of which my readers are referred to the chapter on the 
DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. When this disease is the 



84 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

result of extension of the inflammation from the upper air 
passages and due to the swallowing of infected sputa, it is 
essential that the disease of the nose should receive prompt 
attention, and the catarrhal poison entirely eradicated 
from the system. Catarrh of the stomach may by exten- 
sion become DUODENAL CATARRH, and from the 
duodenum may extend into the common bile-duct and its 
branches. This interferes with the free flow of bile into 
the intestines, thus causing jaundice, indigestion, headache, 
loss of appetite, furred tongue, a bitter taste, nausea and 
continuous vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea, with ash 
colored stools. This condition is usually made manifest 
by what is known as a bilious attack. 

The inflammation extending downward or arising from 
other causes and continuing indefinitely or recurring at 
short intervals is known as 

IKTESTIIWAI* CATARRH. 

This is a frequent disease in middle aged and old peo- 
ple, being due to imperfect mastication, the weakness of 
digestion, portal congestion, the gouty diathesis and other 
causes. Men have the disease more frequently than 
women. Hereditary influence, idiosyncrasy, bad hygiene, 
want of cleanliness, etc., predisposes to catarrh of the 
intestines. The chronic diarrhoeas among soldiers in 
camps is an example of this influence. Overwork, espec- 
ially mental overwork, with privation of sleep, act in the 
same direction, and in the chronic constitutional diseases 
diarrhoea sooner or later appears in the majority of cases. 
The symptoms of indigestion and occasional diarrhoea fre- 
quently exist. In mild cases there may be constipation 
alternating with frequent diarrhoea. Mucus is nearly 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 85 

always found in the stools, and is of itself an evidence of 
catarrh. It may be intimately mixed with the faecal mat- 
ter, or may surround it. Pure mucus may be passed if the 
catarrh is low down. The mucus interferes with digestion 
and absorption. There is a sense of fullness or distress in 
the abdomen from gaseous distension, colicky pains and a 
rumbling of gas. The tongue is coated and usually pale 
and flabby, indicating loss of tone. The skin is white or 
muddy, and there is more or less depression of spirits 
and lassitude. Hemorrhoids or piles are very likely to 
exist with the disease. The diarrhoea is the characteristic 
symptom, the evacuations being mixed with mucus and 
frequently with blood. If allowed to continue, the disease 
is marked by progressive emaciation and debility, finally 
resulting in death. 

CATARRH OF TUB BLADDER. 

This organ is very liable to inflammation, the same gen- 
eral causes being at work in this disease as in other catar- 
rhal inflammations. The disease may be chronic from 
the beginning, due to continued irritation. In all forms of 
this trouble there is more or less pain, frequent desire to 
make water and straining, as if the organ was not entirely 
emptied. The composition of the urine is important. It 
may be clear in the mild cases, but usually has a char- 
acteristic odor, generally more or less sediment mixed 
with mucus, or the mucus may appear as floating particles, 
shreds or as gelatinous masses. 

If allowed to continue, the inflammation may extend up 
the ureters into the kidneys, causing serious blood poison- 
ing, or the constant absorption from the bladder of the 
decomposed products of the urine will soon develop serious 



86 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

symptoms. There is loss of appetite, the skin is sallow 
and clammy ; also various nervous symptoms are apt to be 
present, viz : sluggishness, tendency to sleep, despondent 
spirits, and occasionally dizziness and fainting. Sooner or 
later paralysis supervenes. Then the water passes away 
of its own accord, or is retained, requiring the use of the 
catheter, or it dribbles away a drop at a time. 

TREATMENT OF THE CATARRHAL 
DIATHESIS. 

The frequent failures in the treatment of catarrh have 
led many to conclude that there is no real remedy for that 
distressing and dangerous disease. While it is natural for 
persons afflicted with the malady to become discouraged 
after having made several unsuccessful attempts to get 
cured, yet these failures to find a remedy do not constitute 
any good reason why catarrh cannot be cured. On the 
contrary, the numerous failures to cure only prove that the 
persons who have made the ineffectual attempts did not 
employ the proper agencies and methods to accomplish 
the desired result. Instead of giving up hope of a cure, it 
is much more reasonable and wise to learn by the failures 
of the past to place yourself hereafter under the treatment 
of none but a scientific specialist who employs methods of 
treatment that appeal to your good sense, when they are 
properly explained. 

I will now proceed to explain some of the methods em- 
ployed for treating catarrh, so that my readers may see 
wherein their previous treatment has failed. First of all, 
it should be borne in mind that catarrh of the nose, head, 
ear, eyes, throat and bronchial tubes, is a chronic inflamma- 
tion of the delicate mucous membrane lining those parts 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. 87 

or regions of the body. Now, it is clear that in order to 
successfully treat these diseased membranous surfaces, it is 
not only necessary to employ the proper remedies, but 
also to devise a method by which the remedies can come 
in direct contact with the diseased parts. It is in this last 
particular that the old and common methods of treating 
catarrh have failed. These old and unsuccessful methods 
consist in forcing liquids and liquid spray, powders, snuff 
and ointments up the nose and in the throat. Frequently 
the sprays are laden with cocaine or some other highly 
poisonous and powerful drug that will clear out the stuffed 
up parts, and make the patient's head feel clear for a short 
time. 

As soon, however, as the catarrhal patient ceases to 
have the poisonous cocaine or other deadening drug 
squirted up the nostrils and in the throat, then the catarrh 
is again felt on the same principle that a pain deadened 
by an opiate will return again when the effects of the drug 
have passed away. This mode of treatment not only fails 
to cure, but is positively dangerous, because the cocaine or 
other deadly opiate used, is likely, if long continued, to 
produce paralysis of the muscles of the throat and chest. 
But even if the proper remedies instead of the poisonous 
drugs were used, the old process of forcing liquid sprays, 
powders, snuffs and ointments in the nose and throat 
could not possibly cure catarrh, because the deep cavities 
of the head, ears, throat and brorrchial tubes where the 
catarrhal poison has spread, cannot be reached by 
any form of liquid, sprays, powders, etc. Here is where 
all the old methods fail in bringing remedies in direct con- 
tact with the remote portions of the diseased mucous mem- 
brane. I do not deny that the forcing of certain mild 
liquids and sprays into the nose and throat is beneficial for 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



the purpose of cleansing and clearing out accumulated 
catarrhal secretions : I however emphatically assert that 
any form of liquid sprays, snuffs, etc., no matter what 
medicines they contain, must inevitably fail to permanently 
cure catarrh, because, as I have said, only a small portion 
of the diseased mucous surfaces can be reached by these 
agencies. 

The only safe, effective and reliable medium for convey- 
ing medicines to the mucous surfaces of every cavity of 
the nose, head, ear, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs, is 
"dry medicated air." As my readers have doubtless 
learned e're this from the preceding chapter on "Ancient 
and Modern Inhalation," the efficacy of the inhalation 
method as a medium for carrying medicines to all parts of 
the respiratory organs, was recognized by master medical 
minds as early as two thousand years ago. Of course, the 
early contrivances for administering medicated air were 
necessarily crude, but nevertheless the treatment was 
fraught with good remedial results. The tendency of most 
physicians of late years to discard this common sense 
treatment for certain diseases, has been brought about 
largely by the fact that the successful treatment by medi- 
cated air requires many years of special study and a large 
amount of expensive apparatus for its proper adminis- 
tration. 

While the vast majority of my fellow physicians have 
been waiting for some quick, cheap and easy method to be 
discovered for the cure of catarrh, throat and lung dis- 
eases, I have been perfecting a treatment of "dry medi- 
cated air" and "dry inhalation," the title of which has 
already been recognized by the leading countries of the 
world. Early in my medical practice I recognized in the 
ancient and crude forms of inhalation the basis of a prin- 



CATARRHAL DIATHESIS. S9 

ciple which, if perfected, would revolutionize the treatment 
of all head, throat, bronchial and lung diseases. Just as 
Edison made a practical application of the old principle 
of sound involved in the telephone and phonograph, so I 
succeeded by dint of patient research and scientific expe- 
riment, in developing from the ancient inhalation principle 
a system of "dry inhalation" that renders curable all dis- 
eases of the head, throat and pulmonary organs. 

The difference between my system and method of ad- 
ministering medicated air and those of all other systems, 
is this : I administer absolutely DRY medicated air, while 
that given by all other known methods is rendered WET 
with alcoholic and other fluids while passing through the 
several bottles of organic liquid necessary to medicate the 
air by the old processes. These alcoholic and other fluids 
with which the medicated air is rendered WET by the old 
processes, causes an irritation of the mucous membrane 
surface, thus counteracting in a large degree the good the 
medicated air would otherwise do. Bv my secret system 
of DRY AIR medication and DRY INHALATION appa- 
ratus, I am enabled to convey direct to the catarrhal pois- 
oned membranes, absolutely dry and pure air, laden with 
the essence of certain fresh vegetable juices, which stop 
the irritation and catarrhal secretion, and promote the 
growth of a healthy mucous membrane, not readily affected 
by climatic changes. If the catarrhal poison has carried 
the disease to the stomach and bowels, then I give non- 
changeable internal remedies, which are thus brought into 
direct contact with the diseased mucous surfaces of these 
organs. Simultaneously with my treatment of all the dis- 
eased mucous surfaces of the body, I administer certain 
vegetable juices which drive out of the blood all the catar- 
rhal poison already absorbed. This done, and my cure of 



90 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

one of the most stubborn of all diseases is absolutely com- 
pleted. 

In order that my readers at a distance who cannot con- 
veniently visit my medical institution, may be able to 
enjoy all the advantages of my original treatment for 
catarrh, I have had manufactured a large number of 
HOME TREATMENT dry inhalation apparatuses. These 
will be sent to reliable patients desiring treatment, with- 
out extra charge, upon their agreement to return them 
when time of treatment has expired. In case a "FULL 
TREATMENT" is taken, then the patient agrees to 
return the dry inhalation apparatus when the cure is 
complete. 



CHAPTER III. 



CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 



Since the discovery of the bacillus tuberculosis, by pro- 
fessor Robert Koch, of Berlin, a new light has been thrown 
upon the subject of consumption ; and when his second 
discovery of a cure — " Koch's Lymph Cure for Consump- 
tion," was heralded by the press throughout the world, 
physicians and patients all exclaimed : "At last we have it, 
a little injection under the skin and our lives are saved ! " 

But how soon came the disappointment ; instead of cur- 
ing, it only blasted the hopes of the unfortunate sufferers. 
Consumption, then, is really an incurable disease ? I em- 
phatically say, NO ! Consumption, or tuberculosis is a 
curable disease ; but in order to cure that disease, a com- 
bination of forces will have to act in harmony with nature's 
laws. 

Before explaining my theory of consumption, I desire to 
say a few words on the bacillus tuberculosis. A great 
many physicians in the world claim that the bacillus is the 
cause of consumption. I desire to state that I differ en- 
tirely with this opinion. I prove that my theory is the 
correct one, by simply citing the fact that my treatment 
followed out according to my theory, does cure consump- 
tion, while Koch's theory, with his remedy, does not cure 
consumption. I do not deny that there exists bacillus tuber- 
culosis ; in fact I admit it. But what I do claim is, that 
the bacillus is merely the result, and not the cause of con- 
sumption. Perhaps some of my readers do not know what 



92 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

bacillus means- Bacillus means a germ. „ Jg^* ^^ 

Put a piece of fresh meat in the sun on ® k* 
a reasonably warm day ; let it lie there jiff; W> 

for a time, and shortly you will find that £/#fl§i 
putrefaction has taken place, gases com- ^^S^®?^ 7 ©! 
mence to rise, it soon smells bad and * ^/%^'* $ 
maggots appear. Are the maggots the ' ® ^ ^ 
cause of the putrefaction, or are they bacillus tubercu- 
the result of the putrefactive changes ? losis. 

Any child should be able to answer this question. Here 
we have the effect again, and we can plainly see the cause. 
Taking into consideration then, that the bacillus tubercu- 
losis is merely the effect what then is really the cause of 
consumption. My reader, there is only one place in the 
human system to look for the cause of consumption, and 
that place is the lymphatic system. I will now explain 
why my theory is correct. 

In a previous chapter of this book I have proven that the 
blood receives all its nourishment through the lymphatic 
system, and that this system was really the dumping 
ground where the good was separated from the bad. The 
bad material is thrown into the excreta and the good is 
injected into the blood for further distribution. I claim 
that consumption is a constitutional disease which can be 
hereditary and acquired, and depends upon a peculiar sub- 
stance, so small, in the shape of a cell form like a cancer- 
ous cell (which can easily be verified with the microscope in 
my laboratory), and which can only be separated from the 
glands with the greatest difficulty. This substance may 
lie dormant for years in the lymphatic system, especially 
when it is hereditary. When, however, the disease is 
acquired, this consumptive cell substance is slowly thrown 
into the blood, and the blood deposits it in some internal 



CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 



93 




CONSUMPTIVE CELL SUBSTANCE. 



organ, principally the lungs, 
throat, brain, bowels, etc., 
and from these deposits, 
which undergo putrefactive 
changes, the bacillus tuber- 
culosis is formed. In hered- 
itary cases the consumptive 
poison, as we may call it, 
can lie dormant for months 
and years, until a slight cold 
or anything that will arouse 
the system to overaction, will compel the lymphatic sys- 
tem to throw the poison into the blood. When once these 
deposits have been made in the tissues, certain symp- 
toms will arise, of which I will speak later on. 

This revolution going on in the body reminds me of the 
vessel with its human freight sailing on the sea. The 
waters are calm and the boat glides majestically along. 
All at once the tempest comes, the sea rolls mountain 
high, the boat commences to quiver and groan ; it is tossed 
from side to side, the passengers become excited, some 
pray and some even curse, the storm grows worse and 
worse, everything looks dark and gloomy, but the brave 
captain stands at his post and gives his commands. A 
little longer and all would be over, but happily the storm 
now ceases, and all are saved. The captain has sailed his 
boat safely through the tempest, and so saved many 
precious human lives. So with consumption. When 
once the storm in the lymphatic system begins to rage, 
then the frail human bark must have a prompt and skillful 
pilot to save it from being wrecked on the shoals of dis- 
ease. 



94 



THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 



CAUSES OF THE CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 

Consumption is largely 
hereditary. Children of 
consumptive parents, or 
those where the consump- 
tive diathesis is suspected, 
should be put on the 
proper treatment from 
birth. Consumptive 
mothers should never 
nurse their children. Arti- 
ficial feeding should be 
resorted to. The breath- 
ing of impure air is a 
cause. Certain occupa- 
tions predispose to con- 
sumption, but of all the 
causes that produce a 
consumptive diathesis, a 
low diet and imperfect 
assimilation of food is the 
principal one. For that reason those persons afflicted with 
the nervous diathesis are liable to run into consumption.^ 
To prevent consumption, then all causes which may ex- 
haust the system should be avoided and everything should 
be done to give strength and vigor to the individual body. 




DEPOSIT OF CONSUMPTION MATERIAL 
IN THE LUNGS. 



IS CONSUMPTION CONTAGIOUS? 

I will dismiss this subject with a few w r ords. I do not 
believe that consumption is transmissable from one person 
to another, but I do believe that the product of the disease 
is infectious, and which, when introduced into the respira- 



CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 95 

tory or digestive passages in the proper subject, may pro- 
duce the formation of consumptive material in the lym- 
phatic system. I therefore recommend that the sputa of 
consumptives should always be destroyed at once, and I 
endorse all reasonable means to secure pure and whole- 
some food supplies. 

SYMPTOMS OF A CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 

When the consumptive material has been thrown from 
the lymphatic system into the blood, and the blood has 
deposited it in some internal organ, from that time dates 
the commencement of 
consumption. This per- 
iod is, however, generally 
preceded by more or less 
general debility and im- 
poverishment of nutri- 
tion. This may take 
place so gradual in many 
persons, that it is hardly 
noticeable to the patient's deposit of consumptive material in 
most intimate friends, but THE lungs at different stages. 
it should never escape the intelligent physician. Hem- 
morrhage from the lungs may be the first warning to the 
patient. In young persons a dislike for fatty foods is 
noticed, and they become thin and pale. They frequently 
complain of indigestion and irregularity of the bowels, 
chilly sensations, cold feet, occasional perspiration, quick 
pulse, rendered more frequent at night. In adult persons 
there is a feeling of lassitude, incapability of following the 
usual employment, loss of flesh and a poor appetite, cough, 
expectoration first white and frothy, which, after a while, 




96 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

becomes more abundant and consists of dense, purulent 
and offensive masses, which may, at times, be streaked 
with blood. Then visible emaciation of the body follows, 
general debility, difficulty of breathing, the tongue be- 
comes red and glazed, sick feeling at the stomach or vom- 
iting, much thirst, night sweats, quick pulse and. a fever, 
sometimes diarrhoea, sore throat, hoarseness, and many 
other symptoms and complications may arise. . 

TREATMENT OF A CONSUMPTIVE: 

DIATHESIS. 

The treatment of the consumptive diathesis and con- 
sumption, itself I here divide into two parts, viz : 

First. — Preventing the lymphatic system. from throwing 
into the blood its consumptive material. 

Second. — Treating the disease when .the deposit has 
already been made. The better the- general condition of 
health is, the better the chances, are for preventing the 
lymphatic system from; throwing its consumptive poison 
into the blood, therefore everything that w r ill improve the 
system, belongs to the proper treatment. Diet- and 
hygiene plays a very important part in the treatment,, and 
the very first thing I do to my patient is to mark out a 
diet chart of what food he should eat,. and, then I instruct 
him in all hygienic matters as to clothing to wear, bathing, 
exercise, rest, etc. The proper. fresh vegetable juices will 
then be prescribed to dissolve' the consumptive material in. 
the lymphatic system, and to throw it out of the system; 
also to prevent the formation of additional, consumptive 
poison. 

In the treatment of, cases where the consumptive mater- 
ial is already in the blood, I use, in -addition to the treat- 



PLATE IV. 



lEP^^;'' &~ 




LYMPHATIC SYSTEM OF THE INTESTINES. 



CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 97 

ment described above, the "Dry Inhalation Method," 
which is explained fully in another chapter of this book. 
This "Dry Inhalation Method" is the most wonderful dis- 
covery that has ever been made for the treatment of con- 
sumption. In conclusion I would advise all those afflicted 
with consumption or the consumptive diathesis to carefully 
consider my theory and system of treatment, which has 
proved so successful, beyond even my most sanguine ex- 
pectations. 



SAVED FROM SUFFERING AND DEATH. 



Testimonials of a few of the Remarkable Cures 
Effected by Dr. Kalkhoff. 



Extracts from Written Statements Furnished by 

Grateful Patients who have been Cured 

in Different Parts of the World. 



In the following pages are printed a few extracts from 
the thousands of testimonials sent to Dr. Kalkhoff by his 
patients from different parts of the world. While quite a 
number of wonderful cures are mentioned below, yet not 
one out of a hundred of the most astonishing cures can be 
mentioned here, because of Dr. Kalkhoffs rule of keeping 
all cases strictly secret, unless the patients give him per- 
mission to use their names. It is believed that the extracts 
below, while necessarily not containing any cases of a 
strictly private nature, will yet be sufficient to give even 
the most doubting Thomases confidence that Dr. Kalk- 
hoff's system of treatment will cure all difficult chronic 
diseases. 

FEMALE TROUBLES CURED. 

Dr Kalkhoff: 

For three years I have suffered with female troubles. I 
have dragged myself about the house trying to attend my 
household duties when I could scarcely crawl, on account 
of falling and bearing down pains and many other private 



TESTIMONIALS. 1)9 



ailments affecting my sex. I have sought long and earn- 
estly to be cured by our local physicians, who insisted that 
I must lay aside my modesty and submit to local applica- 
tions. This was a terrible ordeal at first, but I finally 
yielded to their advice in the hope of relief from my suffer- 
ings. All the powerful local applications to which I sub- 
mitted only resulted in leaving me in a worse condition 
than before. I had almost despaired of ever being cured, 
when I received a visit from my old school-mate, Mrs. 
Nathan Howe, of Kansas City. I learned from her how 
she had been cured of similar troubles without exposure, 
by correspondence with you, doctor, and the result was 
that I wrote you five months ago, and am now entirely 
cured. 

Within six weeks after I began taking your wonderful 
treatment my shattered nervous system began to be re- 
stored. By the aid of your diet chart and w T onderful veg- 
etable juices my weak and impoverished body began to 
gain strength, and gradually as I got stronger my private 
weaknesses began to disappear, and all the parts became 
strong and healthy. I now see the truth of what you 
said when you wrote me that local applications could 
never cure me, because they did not strike at the cause of 
my troubles, which arose, you said, from a broken down 
nervous system and the failure of my body to absorb the 
proper nourishment to give natural strength to the sup- 
porting muscles and other parts. I have studied your 
book explaining these things so thoroughly that my lady 
friends tell me that I have got to be quite a doctor. Two 
of my neighbor ladies, Mrs. Abraham Sweet and Mrs. 
Lucy Shippert, took my advice and treated with you. 
They are both now well like myself. 

I mention this to show you that I am not ungrateful, but 



100 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

am talking your system of treatment up among all my 
afflicted friends I meet. I feel it my duty to help the suf- 
fering women of the land to get permanent relief from 
their afflictions, so I have after much thought made up my 
mind to allow you to publish this letter with my name, 
should you desire. I make this personal sacrifice of my 
natural feelings of modesty in the hope that my letter may 
be the means of saving thousands of my sex the suffering, 
mortification and shame of the local application treatment, 
which was a thousand times more embarrassing to me than 
will be the publication of this letter. This is my forty- 
fourth birthday, doctor, and my husband and I have just 
been talking of the great change there is in me since my 
last birthday before I took treatment with you. Now that 
I am well, my husband and I intend to go again into the 
hotel business as soon as he can find a suitable opening 
somewhere. Although we have never seen you, we all 
feel acquainted from your picture printed in your book. I 
shall ever remain, Very gratefully yours, 

Mrs. E. Chadwick, 

Galveston, Texas. 

A BAD CASH OF DYSPEPSIA CURED. 



A STATEMENT BY A WEEE KNOWN 

TOLEDO JOIRNAEIST. 

The following statement is from J. P. Coates, president 
of The News Publishing Company, of Toledo, Ohio : 

To Sufferers from Dyspepsia : — For three years I en- 
dured terrible suffering as the result of dyspepsia and the 
numerous other complications which follow in the wake of 
that dreadful malady. The stomach trouble in my case 



TESTIMONIALS. 101 



first manifested itself by the belching up of food and drink* 
and later by a feeling of pain in the stomach after eating. 
I sought aid from many physicians in Toledo and else- 
where, but the pepsins and other temporary aids to diges- 
tion which they gave me soon lost their effect, and after 
treating for nearly two years I found my stomach growing 
continually weaker, and my suffering more intense. 

To make matters worse I also became afflicted with 
cramps in the bowels and chronic diarrhoea. I again con- 
sulted several family doctors who were personal friends of 
mine, but they could do nothing except prescribe strong 
opiates, which made my stomach still worse, and only 
stopped the cramps and diarrhoea while the effect lasted. 
It was a mystery to these doctors what caused my diar- 
rhoea, as they said that in cases of dyspepsia the bowels 
were usually constipated. I told them that mine were for 
a long time, but that finally the cramps and diarrhoea 
came on. 

When I had finally grown so bad that I could not retain 
even the very lightest food on my stomach and life had 
become a positive burden, I heard of some wonderful cures 
being performed by Dr. Kalkhoff. In sheer desperation I 
went to him as a last resort. The doctor told me at once 
that it was the undigested particles of food passing through 
the stomach that so irritated the intestines as to cause 
cramps and chronic diarrhoea. He then made me out a 
diet chart of what I should eat and drink, and how to cook 
the food. He also gave me some of his fresh vegetable 
juices, which took away the yellowish appearance of my 
skin and invigorated the action of my stomach so that in 
a short time I felt like a new man. 

I found that Dr. Kalkhoff's diet chart allowed me plenty 
of good food to live on, but forbade the eating of things 



102 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

that were hard to digest. Previous to treating with Dr. 
Kalkhoff I had often tried to get some information about 
the kinds of food I should eat, but none of the doctors 
seemed to know anything practical about the subject of 
diet. They would tell me to eat whatever agreed with 
me, and I nearly died while experimenting with myself to 
try and find out what Dr. Kalkhoff told me in ten minutes. 
I have written this somewhat lengthy account of my case 
in the hope that it might result in guiding some suffering 
dyspeptic on the right road to restoration. I will answer 
any further questions that may be addressed to me by vic- 
tims of dyspepsia. J. P. COATES, 

Box 34, Toledo, Ohio. 

THE MINISTER WAS A NERVOUS WRECK. 



cured by dr. kaikhoff's system ok treat- 

ment when heath stared him 

in the face. 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

As the great distance at which I live from you prevents 
me from seeing you personally, I have made up my mind 
to thank you by letter for the wonderful cure your system 
of treatment has wrought in my case of nervous exhaus- 
tion. When you began treating me by mail some eight 
months ago, I was a physical and nervous wreck, and had 
well nigh given up all hope of ever being well again. 

I had sharp shooting pains in all parts of the body, and 
a terrible palpitation of the heart, which thumped so loud 
upon some extra exertion, like going up stairs, that I could 
hear it. Many a night have I gone to bed only to get up 
in the morning more tired and languid than ever. I would 
frequently get a nervous spell at night, and then a deathly 



TESTIMONIALS. 103 



feeling of dizziness would come over me. On several 
occasions I have felt and thought I was losing my senses. 
At some times I would experience a feeling of fullness in 
the head as though it would burst. A short time before 
you began treating me, doctor, I used to have a feeling 
come over me as though I must put an end to my life. I 
tell you I was in an awful state of mind ; and then my 
body was wasting away, because I could not digest my 
food. I became so weak that I could not take a short 
walk without feeling completely exhausted. It would take 
me a week to describe half of the terrible feelings I expe- 
rienced. No one who has not had nervous exhaustion 
was able to properly sympathize with me in my awful 
affliction. I felt many times that death would be a blessed 
relief from my sufferings. 

When I first wrote you about my case you advised me 
to take the FULL TREATMENT, because, you said, if I 
took treatment by the month, I might get discouraged and 
quit before you had time to build up my exhausted ner- 
vous system. I now realize the wisdom of your advice, 
because at the end of the first month's treatment I should 
surely have quit in despair, had I not paid for the full 
cure. At the end of the second month's treatment I was 
considerably improved in some respects, and after three 
months I began to take hope. From that time on my im- 
provement was slow but sure, until now at the end of eight 
months' treatment I am practically a well man, and intend 
shortly to again enter the ministry, from which high call- 
ing my long sickness compelled me to retire. I shall 
sound the praises of your wonderful treatment wherever 
I go. I remain most gratefully yours, 

Rev. J. L. Whitman, 

San Francisco, Cal. 



104 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

EMILY MILTON, THE GREAT CONTRALTO. 



CURED OK CATARRH ANO THROAT TROUBLE 
BY OR. KAI^KHOFF'S DRY INHALA- 
TION PROCESS. 

The letter printed below is an exact copy of one written 
to Dr. Kalkhoff by Emily Milton, the great contralto 
singer, late of Paris. Mrs. Milton is the confidential friend 
and student of Mdme. Viardot Garcia, the greatest living 
contralto, and while making a tour of the continent sang 
in the Royal Opera House and before the crowned heads 
of Europe. As will be seen by her letter heading 
below, Emily Milton is proprietor of the famous Vocal and 
Operatic School of Milwaukee, Wis., one of the great musi- 
cal centers of the United States. 

EMILY MILTON'S 

Vocal and Operatic School, 
i 12 johnson st. 

Milwaukee, Wis. 
Dr. Kalkhoff: 

Your dry inhalation process so completely cured my 
former bad catarrh and throat troubles, and so greatly im- 
proved my vocal organs, that I now insist upon the use of 
your dry medicated air by all my pupils who have any 
nasal or throat affections. I find that your method of 
treatment not only cures catarrh and throat affections of 
my pupils, but renders the organs of the voice so strong, 
clear and pliable as to greatly aid their proficiency in 
vocal music. I believe that all who wish to become good 
singers and public speakers will be benefited greatly by 



TESTIMONIALS. 105 



your dry inhalation treatment, because my experience in 
examining the throats of pupils is, that nearly everyone 
has some nasal or throat trouble, even though they do not 
realize it. Your cure of my nasal and throat affections 
was over two years ago, before I made my last tour of 
Europe, so that I am happy in the knowledge that the 
cure is permanent. While in Europe I met quite a num- 
ber of singers and others who spoke of having been treated 
and cured by your dry inhalation process. I feel so grate- 
ful, doctor, for your wonderful cure in my case, that you 
may publish this, letter if you desire, so that others may be 
led to try your wonderful methods of treatment. I will 
also answer all letters written to me by those who think of 
treating with you, if they enclose postage stamp for answer. 

I remain gratefully yours, 

Emily Milton. 
112 Johnson St., Milwaukee, Wis. 

ItfBRVOUS DIATHESIS. 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

Dear Sir: — You ask me to write you whether I still 
continue well. I must answer in the affirmative. When I 
think how two years ago in what terrible suffering I was, 
and to-day a well woman, and only thanks to your treat- 
ment ! Why, certainly, you can publish my testimonial ; 
in fact, I think it is my duty that it should be published. 
I know that there are hundreds of women in this country 
who suffer just the same as I did, and I know that there 
are very few physicians who understand how to treat nerv- 
ous affections very successfully. A half a dozen physicians 
treated me at one time, and every one of them for a differ- 
ent disease. One said I had dyspepsia, the other, I had 



106 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

liver disease, the third, kidney, the fourth claimed I even 
had an organic disease of the heart, etc., when finally I 
gave up all hope to ever get better again, until at last I 
was induced to place myself under your immediate care. 
After an examination you stated at once that my disease 
was nervous exhaustion, produced by over-work, anxiety 
and w r orry. I commenced your treatment and I have 
never regretted it. My headache and dizziness soon dis- 
appeared, I commenced to sleep better, my appetite im- 
proved, my kidneys commenced to act better, my bowels 
became regular, these feelings of getting the blues so often 
disappeared, my memory got better, that fearful palpita- 
tion of the heart grew less, in fact, in every way I gained, 
and after six months' treatment I considered myself en- 
tirely recovered and have remained so until the present 
day. I cannot recommend your treatment too highly. 
Very truly yours, 

Mrs. Helen Adams. 

St. Louis, Mo. 

CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

Just four months ago I commenced doctoring with you, 
and I can truly say I am better than I have been for years. 
Your dry inhalation treatment is very beneficial to any 
one who is troubled with a constant hacking cough or 
tickling in the throat. For the last ten years I have been 
so short of breath that I could not walk across a room 
without being completely exhausted. Now I can walk 
from one room to another without any trouble. Before 
taking your medicine when I would wake up in the morn- 
ing I would have a very hard coughing spell and would be 
completely tired out ; could hardly get my breath. Now 



TESTIMONIALS. 107 



my cough and breathing is better than it has been in 
years. Have been for the past thirty years constantly 
under doctors' care. My former home was in Saratoga 
County, New York. In that state thirty years ago my 
physicians gave me up as one dying with consumption. 
We then came out here, consulted an "M. D." and heard 
the same old story, consumption. They all managed to 
just keep me alive, and that was about all. Thirty years 
experience has fully demonstrated that no remedy has 
proven for me so prompt and efficient in relieving short- 
ness of breath and a constant cough. I could write pages 
and not recommend it highly enough and what it has done 
for me, and language fails to express my gratitude to you. 
Yours respectfully, 

Mrs. E. Becker, 
P. O. Box 245. Kenosha, Wis. 

A REMARKABLE CURB. 

Dr. Kalkhoff* 

For several years I have been a severe sufferer from 
catarrh of the nose, throat and bronchial tubes ; also had 
dyspepsia and nervous prostration. During the past year 
have not been able to do any work, and could only walk 
around the house by the use of canes. I coughed con- 
stantly, and raised large quantities of mucus. Had two 
severe attacks of bleeding from the lungs. I had no appe- 
tite, slept very little and suffered much pain. I had tried 
every known remedy with no benefit, and the physicians 
here helped me in no way, and they, as well as myself, 
considered my case beyond any help. Two months ago I 
placed myself under your treatment, and commenced to 
improve at once, and the improvement has been steady 



108 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

and constant ever since. I am not troubled at present 
with catarrh in any way, have a good appetite, no cough, 
am gaining strength daily, and am able to walk around as 
I wish. Considering my former condition, at which time 
I was said to be beyond help, and my condition now, I re- 
gard my recovery as remarkable. I heartily recommend 
you to all afflicted persons. 

Yours respectfully, 

F. W. St. Clair. 
Orleans, Ionia Co., Mich. 

PROF. STEADMAN'S STOMACH TROUBLE. 



CXJKJED IN THREE MONTHS, AFTER 
SIX YEARS STANDING. 

The following testimonial letter is from Professor A. H. 
Steadman, the principal and proprietor of the Steadman 
Business College, corner Summit and Adams streets, 
Toledo, Ohio. This college is one of the finest practical 
business training schools in America, and Professor Stead- 
man one of the most progressive, successful and reliable 
educators ; so that his voluntary testimonial below is en- 
titled to especial consideration as coming from a man of 
superior intelligence : 

Dr. A. F. . Kalkhoff, 

505, 507 and 509 Summit Street, Toledo, Ohio. 

My Dear Sir: — For six years I suffered from a most 
distressing stomach trouble, and, although I was treated 
by a number of physicians, I could get no relief until I 
called at your office last November. 

My normal weight is 165 pounds, and I had lost until 
I weighed but 130 pounds, when I began treating with you. 



TESTIMONIALS. 109 



By the use of your most excellent "DIET CHART," 
which showed the food my system most needed, together 
with your incomparable remedies, I, in three months, 
gained my lost weight and began to enjoy life again. 

The many persons to whom I have recommended your 
treatment is evidence that I have the greatest faith in your 
ability to successfully cope with all stomach ailments. 

Yours truly, 

A. H. Steadman. 

A NOTED EUROPEAN PROFESSOR CURED 

OF CATARRH. 

Prof. August Schemmel, the well known musician of 
Stuttgart, Germany, celebrated composer and pianist, gives 
the following testimonial : 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

Dear Sir; — For years I had been afflicted with an 
aggravated catarrh of the throat and nasal passages, and 
had been treated by the most noted specialists in these 
diseases at Berlin, Paris, Vienna and other places in 
Europe ; although some relief was obtained there was no 
cure, and I finally concluded that there was no treatment 
that would effect a cure. I was recommended to try your 
dry inhalation treatment, and it is now a year since I com- 
menced, and after using the same faithfully for six months, 
my complaint is now entirely cured and has remained so 
to the present day ; in fact, I feel better than I have ever 
felt in my life, and I can faithfully recommend to any one 
who is afflicted with any similar disease from which I was 
suffering, your treatment, and I am sure they never will 
regret it. Yours with great respect, 

August Schemmel. 



110 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

SAVED FROM DEATH. 

To Whom it May Concern: — For three years I was a 
great sufferer. My sickness first began as a result of an 
awful hard cold, which finally affected my bronchial tubes 
and lungs. Then my stomach, which had been diseased, 
gave out completely, and I failed very fast. Finally a 
most dangerous form of rheumatism attacked me, causing 
all my joints to swell, and affecting my heart. During the 
three years of my sickness I employed eight Toledo phy- 
sicians, besides being treated by several at Columbus and 
Mt. Clemens. None of the doctors helped me any, so 
they left me to die. My friends had also lost hope of my 
living, as they admitted afterwards. Well, just about the 
time I felt like dropping into my grave, I heard of the 
wonderful cures being performed by Dr. Kalkhoff. I was 
induced to treat with him, and in a few months he had 
completely cured me of all my diseases, and I have been 
working regularly ever since. I was formerly employed 
at the hardware house of R. G. Bacon & Co., of Toledo, 
and of late have been working for the Toledo Electric 
Street Railway Co. Frank Herman, 

622 John Street, Toledo, O. 

H. C. BBNSMAIV'S TESTIMONY. 

For four years I suffered from catarrh, bronchitis and 
asthma. Many physicians in Toledo treated me without 
avail. Finally I was advised that if I wanted to save my 
life I should leave this climate and go west. This was in 
February. My cough and difficult breathing were getting 
worse all the time. I was daily losing flesh. Could not 
sleep any, but had to cough all night. I had given up 
hope of ever getting well again. I finally started the won- 



TESTIMONIALS. Ill 



derful dry inhalation treatment with Dr. Kalkhoff, who 
after a short course has entirely cured me. I feel to-day 
better than I ever felt in my life, and am working at my 
trade as a machinist at the Smith Bridge Company's works 
every day. I cannot speak too highly of Dr. Kalkhoffs 
wonderful dry inhalation treatment. Another disease that 
I had was universal eczema, a skin affection I had all my 
lifetime, for which to cure I have spent hundreds of dol- 
lars, but all to no avail. Dr. Kalkhoff cured this terrible 
skin disease for me in a few weeks by his great European 
treatment for skin diseases. H. C. BENSMAN, 

1345 Oak Street, East Toledo. 

A DESPERATE CASH OF ASTHMA CURED. 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

Dear Sir: — What shall I say? I can not find words 
adequate to express my thankfulness for what you have 
done for me. If ever a person had asthma for ten long 
years, and suffered what I have, they can appreciate when 
they find a treatment that will cure this dreadful disease. 
Yes, cured I am ; it took a long time, but then what is ten 
months' treatment and its expense in comparison with ten 
years' suffering? It has been about four years since I 
commenced your treatment, and it is three years and two 
months since I have had an attack or even a symptom of 
an attack. When a person like myself tried every known 
remedy, innumerable physicians, spent months in Colorado 
and California, they can appreciate such treatment- I am 
one of your many grateful patients. 

Very sincerely yours, 

Jerome Atkins, 
St. Paul, Minn. 



112 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

A CONSUMPTIVES WONDERFUL CURB. 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

In response to yours of the 3d, inst. , I would say, that 
I can not wish any better health than I have at present ; 
thanks to your treatment. It is now six years since the 
physicians all gave me up as a hopeless case, and I had 
made up my mind that die I must from that dreadful dis- 
ease, consumption. I was then a mere skeleton, weighing 
98 pounds — to-day I weigh 185 pounds. What a change ! 
When I consulted you at that time you did not give me 
much hope, but I had implicit faith in your treatment, and 
I had made up my mind to give it at least a fair trial. In 
three months I had gained ten pounds ; in six months I 
weighed 125 pounds, and after one year I considered my- 
self entirely well. I cannot praise your treatment too 
much, and if anything in this world produces miraculous 
powers, it was surely your remedies that were administered 
to me through inhalation. 

I wish you the success you so well deserve, and sign a 
most grateful patient. Aaron D. Walters, 

Springfield, 111. 

NERVOUS DIATHESIS-SICK HEADACHE. 

Miss Agnes Hall, daughter of a well known citizen of 
Chicago, was treated by me and cured after a three 
months' course. Her case is one from which a great many 
persons suffer. Without the slightest warning, when at 
church or walking, at the piano or engaged in household 
duties, her vision would become blurred, objects before her 
seemed to dance about in every direction, and she was un- 
able to recognize familiar faces. No barometer is so accu- 
rate in indicating storms, as are those nervous symptoms 



TESTIMONIALS. 113 



in foretelling the commotion which was about to take place 
in her system. Soon the blur before her eyes partially dis- 
appeared and a most raging headache set in. The arteries 
in the temples were swollen and began to pulsate with 
great rapidity and force. Sharp lancinating pains darted 
all over the head and through the eyes. As a rule, vomit- 
ing of a mucous liquid, mixed with bile, accompanied the 
other symptoms. After lasting from twelve to twenty- 
four hours, the severity of the attack abated, leaving her 
somewhat in a debiliated state, from which she soon re- 
covered. 

UNTOLD SUFFERING. 

Charles Gromisch, a well-to-do and respected German 
citizen of Whiteford Center, Mich., in a letter to Dr. Kalk- 
hoff, said : " For eight years I have been severely afflicted 
with a complication of diseases which have taken nearly 
all the enjoyment out of my life. My stomach, head, 
throat and bronchial tubes were in a terrible condition. 
A lack of nerve force, weak circulation and consequent 
heart trouble followed close on to the failure of the stom- 
ach to properly digest and absorb the nutriment of the 
food eaten. To make matters worse in my case, a nasal 
or catarrhal poison had gone down into my throat, bron- 
chial tubes and stomach, which made many physicians 
finally despair of ever doing anything for me in the way of 
permanent benefit, and much less cure me. I continued to 
grow worse in spite of the efforts of many family physic- 
ians and traveling quacks to cure me, until finally I fortun- 
ately heard of Dr. Kalkhoff, who cured me in a few 
months." Charles Gromisch, 

Whiteford Center, Mich. 



114 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

EPILEPSY OF FIVE YEARS' STANDING 
CURED. 

Miss Jane Thompson, of Des Moines, Iowa, came to me 
with the following history: In the early part of 1886, she 
had her first attack in the night \yhile asleep, but for a 
year previous had occasionally been in a dazed condition 
with a great confusion of memory. The attacks for a 
while occurred once in about seven weeks, and further on, 
instead of a single paroxysm, she would have two, and 
sometimes three in the succeeding twenty-four hours. The 
patient had been taking bromide of potassium for several 
years and was still taking it when she came under my care. 
The patient was exceedingly nervous and despondent. I 
put her on the diet and vegetable juice treatment, and her 
improvement was noticeable at once. During the first 
month's treatment she had only two attacks, and since 
then she has had no attacks at all ; she took the treatment 
for about ten months, and having had no attack in nearly 
five years, I can conscientiously say that she is entirely 
cured. 

DYSPEPTIC DIATHESIS. 

Mrs. David Blaich, a well known lady of Chelsea, Mich- 
igan, writes: "I have suffered a great deal with my 
stomach, and tried many doctors within the last six years, 
but they could not help me. I tried Dr. KalkhofFs dry 
inhalation and diet treatment, and very soon found that 
he was helping me so much. I could not eat but what my 
stomach would pain me, and I cannot speak too highly of 
what Dr. Kalkhoff has done for me. I can recommend 
him all over the United States for those who have suffered 
in such a way as I have. I can do more work now than I 



TESTIMONIALS. 115 



have done in a long time, having gained in flesh. My 
friends tell me I am looking well. Four years ago I laid 
flat on my back and my doctor treated me day after day 
and never could do anything for my stomach ; he would 
let nature take its course. Don't know where I would be 
to-day had it not been for Dr. KalkhofPs wonderful rem- 
edies. 

BRONCHITIS CURED. 

Mr. Albert De Mott,of Fond du Lac, Wis., writes as 
follows : 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

Dear Sir: — It is two years last month since you 
treated me for bronchitis, a disease that I had been 
afflicted with for four years, and which seemed to baffle 
the skill of a great many of the most skilful physicians 
that I had applied to for treatment. It took just three 
months for you to cure me of this disease, by your dry 
inhalation method, and to-day I am a well man. I have 
no objections to your publishing this ; in fact, I feel it my 
duty to call attention to this publicly, especially if I can 
be of any benefit to anyone suffering from a similar dis- 
ease, to call their attention to a mode of treatment that 
will cure them in a very short time. 

ST. VITUS DANCE. 

Mrs. Jerome Atkins, of Madison, Wisconsin, brought her 
little girl, aged thirteen years, with the following history : 
Some ten months before the mother first observed slight 
convulsive twitchings of the left hand, which gradually 
increased in severity until in a few weeks the member was 



116 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

quite useless. In two or three months the left leg became 
choreic and soon after the disorder extended to the right 
arm. It was one of those cases which obstinately resisted 
ordinary internal medication. The diet and vegetable 
juice treatment was given every day, but for three weeks 
no apparent impression was made upon the disease. Dur- 
ing the fourth week the symptoms somewhat abated, and 
from this time forth the improvement was uninterrupted, 
until, in ten weeks from the beginning of the treatment, 
recovery was perfect. 

CATARRH OF THE BLADDER. 

Mr. Thomas Atkins, Grand Rapids, Michigan, came to 
me with a severe inflammation of the bladder, from 
which he had been suffering for over five years, and had 
tried various noted specialists in New York and Philadel- 
phia, with some relief but no permanent benefit. His suf- 
ferings finally became intense ; every fifteen minutes, at 
night especially, he had to get up and urinate, at least a 
desire to do so, for nothing would pass but a small amount 
of urine, mixed with blood and mucus. His whole system 
finally became in a deplorable condition and continued so 
until he commenced the diet and vegetable juice treat- 
ment. The improvement was immediate and continued so 
until the cure was established, and has been permanent 
until the present day, it now being three years since he 
has taken any treatment. 

HOW HE GOT A HOME. 

Mathias Blau, an old soldier, of 2207 Chestnut street, 
Toledo, Ohio, testifies that he was disabled from work by 
a stomach disease, nervous and heart troubles and rheuma- 



TESTIMONIALS. 117 



tism, and that after spending his meager income for years 
with doctors, who prevented him from getting a home, he 
was finally healed and cured by Dr. Kalkhoff. Since his 
recovery he has worked regularly in the lumber season for 
Barbour & Starr, of North Toledo, and has bought him a 
home with the money he used to spend right along for 
doctors. 

DYSPEPTIC AI^D NERVOUS DIATHESIS. 

I can cheerfully recommend Dr. A. F. Kalkhoff s treat- 
ment for dyspepsia and nervousness as one of the best, as 
I have been afflicted with both for ten or twelve years, and 
have found great relief from his treatment. Also my son 
was troubled with general weakness of the. system and 
paralysis of the feet and limbs, and words cannot express 
the benefits received from his treatment. I found him 
prompt in sending medicine as often as needed. 

Respectfully, 

Geo. S. Barber, 
Grass Lake, Mich. 

RHEUMATIC DIATHESIS. 

Dr. Kalkhoff: 

My troubles of rheumatism from which I suffered untold 
agonies for years, now, thanks to your treatment, is cured. 
I am at last happy to say that after many fruitless trials 
at various offices and much useless expense I am finally 
relieved of all pains. In addition let me say that you are 
the only doctor to whom I can faithfully recommend all 
sufferers from similar diseases. 

Yours truly, 

Frank Hirtts, 
Milwaukee, Wis. 



118 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

CONSUMPTIVE DIATHESIS. 

Case of Mrs. Mary Schroeder, Milwaukee, Wis., given 
up by five physicians to die, cured by the Dry Inhalation 
method in ten months. She states : At the end of three 
months I had gained twenty pounds, and my chest in- 
creased in circumference ten inches ; my cough soon left 
me, and all other symptoms of my disease, and to-day I 
am a well woman. 



DYSPEPSIA. 

Mr. John M. Mueller, proprietor of the Northwestern 
Hotel, 172 Huron street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has suf- 
fered for years from stomach disorder, and tried many 
physicians and remedies in vain. After a three months' 
course of the diet and vegetable juice treatment he has 
been entirely cured. 

THROAT DISEASE. 

This is to certify that I have been afflicted with a severe 
throat difficulty for some months, and three physicians 
tried in vain to relieve me. By a series of successful 
operations, Dr. Kalkhoff cured me entirely in ten days. 

Mrs. Geo. Bernatz, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 



TREATMENT THROUGH CORRESPONDENCE. 



Every disease afflicting the human race has certain un- 
mistakable signs, symptoms or feelings by which its pres- 
ence in the body is made known to the skilled physician 
who thoroughly understands the science of diagnosing 
disease. In diseases of long standing the symptoms or 
feelings which accompany them are especially marked and 
readily described through correspondence by aid of my 
exhaustive and original QUESTION LIST, printed in the 
following pages. The vast variety of questions in my list 
relate to every possible condition of the body, from the 
crown of the head to the sole of the foot, so that when 
these questions are honestly answered by letter, I can get 
an exact knowledge of the patient's condition, the same as 
when making the most thorough personal examination. 
Of course I am always pleased to have a personal visit 
from those of my patients who can make it convenient to 
1 come in person to my extensive medical institution. It is 
very seldom however that it is necessary for a person liv- 
ing at a distance to bear the expense and fatigue of travel, 
except where there is a surgical operation to be performed. 
In writing answers to my QUESTION LIST, none should 
hesitate to give me all possible information about them- 
selves, including things of the most private nature, as I 
treat all correspondence sacredly confidential. I have on 
file in my offices many thousand letters from persons whom 
I have cured of the most difficult and desperate diseases 
through correspondence. In fact, I find by referring to 
my case books, that some of my most remarkable cures 
have been effected for persons who have been treated 



120 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

entirely by correspondence. In writing to patients I 
always use a plain envelope, and in sending medicines by 
mail or express, there is no mark on the package indi- 
cating who or where it is from, or the nature of its con- 
tents. The directions I give are so plain that they cannot 
be misunderstood. On receipt of your letter, (with stamp 
enclosed to prepay answer), I will tell you candidly what 
can be done in your case. 

BUSINESS RILES, 

All letters addressed to me must have postage stamp 
enclosed if an answer is desired. 

The name of the postoffice, county and state, together 
with the sender's name, must be written plainly on every 
letter. 

Money can be sent at my risk by New York draft, post- 
office order, express order or registered letter. All money 
orders, drafts, etc. must be made payable to Dr. A. F. 
Kalkhoff, Toledo, Ohio. 

Address all letters to 

DR. A. F. KALKHOFF, 

505, 507 & 509 Summit St. Toledo, Ohio. 



ORIGINAL SYSTEM OF TREATMENT THROUGH 
CORRESPONDENCE. 



QUESTION LIST. 



In writing out a history of your disease the questions 
should be answered by number. Many questions may just 
be answered yes or no. Questions that have no reference 
to patient's case do not require an answer. 

i. What is your name? 2. Post office and express 
office address? 3. Age? 4. Sex? 5. Present and 
former weight? 6. Height? 7. Complexion? 8. 
Temperament? 9. Occupation? 10. Are you com- 
pelled to labor hard ? 11. Are you married or single ? 

HABITS. 

12. Do you use tobacco ? 13. Snuff? 14. Intoxi- 
cating drinks? 15 Opium or morphine ? 16. Chlo- 
ral? 17. Cocaine ? 18. Chloroform ? 1 9. Ether ? 
20. Arsenic? 21. Cologne water? 22. Coffee? 
23. Tea? 24. Have you a mania for other foods or 
drugs ? 

HEAD. 

25. Do you sleep well? 26. Do you have unpleas- 
ant dreams? 27. Are you troubled with dizziness ? 
28. Any pain? 29. What character ? 30 Do you 
have headache? 31. Is it located in front; back; 



122 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

on top; in temples; over eyes? 32. Is there a sen- 
sation of throbbing in the head? 33. Dullness? 34. 
Pressure? 35. Fullness? 36. Strange feelings? 
27. Dandruff? 38. Is the hair dry and falling out? 
39. Any itching of the scalp ? 

EYES. 

40. How is your sight — normal; near sighted; far 
sighted? 41. Do you notice any black spots before 
the eyes? 42. Flashes of lightning before the eyes? 
43. Do you see objects double? 44. Are the eyes 
watery? 45. Any discharge? 46. Are the lids in- 
flamed ? 47. Is there any pain in the eyes? 48. 
Weakness? 49. Smarting? 50. Itching? 51. 
Opacity? 52. Is there any bulging or undue promi- 
nence of the eye ball? 53. Are the eyes tender on 
pressure, accompanied by great pain after reading, 
writing or sewing? 

BARS. 

54. How far can you hear a watch tick from the 
ear — left; right? (State distance in inches.) 55. Is 
there any pain? 56. Any discharge or running from 
the ears? 57. Roaring noises? 58. Describe the 
noises? 59. Crackling sounds? 60. Did you ever 
have catarrh? 61. Scarlet fever? 62. Diphtheria? 
63. Smallpox? 64. Measles? 

NOSE, THROAT AND MOUTH. 

65. Is there any obstruction to the nasal passages? 



QUESTION LIST. 123 



66. Is there any discharge ? 67. Does the discharge 
fall into the throat? 68. Is the discharge profuse, 
scanty, watery, and acrid or thick and tenacious ? 

69. Is it mattery, bloody, crusty, putrid or offensive ? 

70. Is the breath foul? 71. Do you have frequent 
spells of sneezing? 72. Does the least exposure 
cause swelling of the mucous membranes? 73. Does 
the nose feel dry and irritable ? 74. Is the sense of 
smell impaired? 75. Has the voice the nasal twang? 

76. Is there tightness or constriction of the throat ? 

77. Does the throat feel sore? 78. Is there any 
hoarseness ? 79. Is there a tickling sensation in the 
throat ? 80. Are there any ulcers or white spots in 
the throat? 81. Is the mouth sore? 82. Are the 
gums tender? 83. Do they bleed easy? 84. Are 
the teeth decayed ? 85. Is the tongue sore ? 

LUNGS AND HEART. 

86. Is your chest full, flat or deformed? 87. Is 
there any consumption in your family? 88. Do you 
cough? 89. Is it dry, hollow and hacking? 90. 
Tight, deep and distressing? 91. Short and sharp? 
92. Barking and hoarse ? 93. Whistling? 94. Par- 
oxysmal and whooping? 95. At what times is it 
worst ? 96. Have you ever bled from the lungs ? 
97. When and how much ? 98. Do you expectorate 
or raise much? 99. What quantity in 24 hours? 
100. What is its color? 101. Is it thick or thin? 
102 Does it float or sink in water? 103. Does it 
contain specks or lumps of gray matter? 104. Is it 



124 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

streaked or mixed with blood? 105. Is it frothy, 
tough, sticky, and difficult to remove from the mouth? 
106. Have you chills, fever and night sweats? 107. 
Have you a sensation in the chest as if water was 
dropping? 108. Can you lie on either side without 
coughing? 109. Are you troubled with asthma or 
hay fever? no. Do you have severe paroxysms? 
in. How long do they last ? 112. Do they occur in 
the night or day? 113. At what season of the year 
are you worst? 114, Do you have pain in the back 
or chest? 115. Do you gasp or struggle for breath? 
1 16. Does your heart palpitate ? 117. Do you have 
pain in or near the heart? 118. Can you lie on the 
left side? 1 19. Do you have feelings as if the heart 
wanted to stop; especially at night time? 120. 
Trembling and quivering of the heart? 121. Heavy 
feelings around the heart? 122. Are your feet and 
ankles swollen ? 123. Do your hands puff up? 124. 
Does your breath get short on exertion? 

STOMACH AISD BOWELS. 

125. Is the tongue coated ? 126, What color? 127. 
How is the appetite? 128. Have you a dislike for 
certain foods ? 129. Does your stomach and bowels 
bloat ? 1 30. Is there any belching after meals ? 131. 
How long after meals? 132. Do you experience a 
sense of weight or fullness in the stomach ? 133. Are 
you troubled with heart-burn or sour stomach ? 134. 
Is there a bad taste in the mouth ? 135. Do you feel 
sick at the stomach? 136. Have you a trembling or 



QUESTION LIST. 125 



throbbing in the stomach ? 137. Do you ever vomit? 
138. What is the color of the vomit ? 139. Have you 
a peculiar feeling of heaviness on the left side ? 140. 
Is there any rumbling in the bowels? 141. Is there 
pain or soreness in the stomach or bowels ? 142. Are 
your bowels costive, regular or loose? 143. Do you 
pass any mucus from the bowels? 144. Do you pass 
any blood? 145. State its color? 146. Have you 
piles? 147. Fistula? 148. Have you any itching 
around the anus ? 

KIDNEYS A1SO BLADDER. 

149. Is there pain across the kidneys or over the 
bladder? 150. Is the back weak? 151. Is there 
burning or scalding of the urine? 152. Is there any 
obstruction to the flow? 153. Is there a desire to 
urinate too often? 154. Is there any sediment on 
standing? 155. What is the nature of it? 156. Is 
the urine high colored or pale? 157. Scanty or pro- 
fuse? 158. Is there any mucus or other discharges 
passing away through the urine? 159. Ever pass 
any gravel or sand ? 

SKIN. 

160. Is the skin dry? 161. Shrunken? 162. 
Moist? 163. Have you any eruptions on the skin ? 
164. Is it in the nature of a pimple? 165. Scale? 
166. Rash? 167. Bleb? 168. Vesicle? 169. Pus- 
tule? 170. Tubercle? 171. Stain? — (as liver 
patches, etc ) 172. Are there any open sores? 173. 
Have you varicose veins? 



126 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

CORPULENCY. 

174. What is your present weight? 175. What 
was your weight before the increase? 176. Gents. — 
What is your chest measurement under clothing? 
177. Ladies. — What is your bust measurement under 
clothing? 178. What is your waist measurement un- 
der clothing? 179. Your hip measurement? 180. 
Have you gained flesh rapidly? 181. Is your corpu- 
lency wholly abdominal ? 

BRAIN, SPINAL AND NERVOUS. 

182. Do you have dizzy, faint and blind spells? 
183. Is there loss of energy? 184. Are you easily 
fatigued? 185. Do you feel discouraged, gloomy arid 
melancholy at times? 186. Do you have cold feet 
and hands? 187. Are you nervous and easily irri- 
tated? 188. Have you low spirits? 189. Is there 
any tenderness of the scalp? 190. Any tenderness 
of the skin of the whole body? 191. Ticklishness ? 
192. Timidity? 193. Do you experience a fear of 
leaving the house, of leaving home, of going any- 
where alone? 194. Is there fear of sudden death? 

195. Do you experience smelling peculiar odors? 

196. Peculiar tastes as bitter or sour ? 197. Failure 
of memory? 198. Numbness in different parts of the 
body? 199. Crawling or creeping as of insects be- 
neath the skin? 200. A sensation of pricking as if a 
pin or many pins were touched to the skin? 201. Is 
there a tendency for the legs and arms to go to sleep? 
202. Chills and flashes of heat? 203. Spasms of the 



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muscles? 204. Flying pains through the body? 
205. Flushing and fidgetiveness? 206. Sudden giv- 
ing away of strength? 207. Do you have fits? 208. 
How often do they occur? 209. Do they occur in the 
day time or at night? 210. How long have you had 
them? 211. Have you any paralysis? 212. Local 
or general? 215. Any spasms? 214. Any tremors? 
215. Can you walk a straight line with your eyes 
closed? 216. Have you any severe, lightning like 
pains in the spine? 217. Do you have any cramps? 

MISCELLANEOUS SYMPTOMS. 

Under this heading the patient will describe any partic- 
ular symptoms which may happen to be present in his case, 
and which have not been already stated in this question 
list. 

218. Have you ever had any severe illness? 219. 
What name did the doctors attending you give to your 
disease? 220. How did you lose your health? 221. 
How often does your pulse beat in a minute? 222. 
Is the pulse intermittent? 223. How many times do 
you breathe in a minute? 224. Are you confined to 
the house? 225. Have you any tumor, growth, de- 
formity, contracted limbs, enlarged joints, or enlarged 
glands? — (Give all the information you can upon this 
subject.) 226. From what particular symptoms do 
you suffer most? 

FOR LADIES. 

227. Are you troubled with leucorrhoea or whites, 



128 THE SAFEGUARDS OF LIFE. 

and what character? 228. Is there a bearing down 
or dragging sensation and tenderness in region of the 
womb? 229. Is the menstrual function deranged? 
230. If suppressed did it stop suddenly or gradually, 
and when? 231. Is the menstruation profuse or 
scanty? 232. Premature or delayed ? 233. Clotted 
or fluid? 234. Pale, natural or dark? 235. Easy or 
painful? 

FOR GENTLEMEN. 

If afflicted with any disease of a private nature, please 
send for strictly confidential question list. 




All persons at a distance, who desire to come to Toledo 
to consult Dr. Kalkhoff personally, should write or tele- 
graph for an engagement. This is necessary to avoid dis- 
appointments) as many are always in waiting to consult 
the doctor. 

Address all letters and telegrams to 

DR. A. F. KALKHOFF, 

505, 507 and 509 Summit St. TOLEDO, OHIO. 



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